forgotten gravesites

One woman's quest to learn where her ancestors may have been buried led to a historic African-American burial ground believed to hold the graves of former slaves from Welaunee and Fleischmann plantations in Leon County.

While one University of South Florida anthropologist continues her work further exploring more than 40 unmarked cemeteries and burial grounds in Hillsborough County, another is focusing on lost Black cemeteries.

Two Florida lawmakers are once again backing a bill to create a task force to study how many abandoned African American cemeteries exist in the state. Members of the task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing those cemeteries.

Leon County Commissioners will review updates on a potential unmarked cemetery within Miccosukee Greenway. The state is working to find the cemetery's boundaries.

Unmarked African-American burial grounds are scattered throughout Florida. Sen. Janet Cruz (D-Tampa) wants to fund and reinstate a 10-member task force to…

Across Florida, long-forgotten cemeteries are being rediscovered, in some cases centuries after being lost to development. One was recently found in…