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Apr 9, 2024 · They traveled together, building their own communities across rural Ohio. “We talk about Black Cleveland or Black Cincinnati, but it's actually rural life that very much defines Black life in the Midwest and in the Great Lakes region [at that time],” she said. Today, Defiance County is nearly 95% white. Voltz said that’s not a coincidence.
- Kendall Crawford
Jun 28, 2024 · The land was partially a historically Black cemetery with at least 22 confirmed graves, one dating back to 1854. The land was acquired by a white farmer in 1915, which is when the headstones were ...
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The Pine Street Colored Cemetery is a four-acre, 162-year-old cemetery that sits on the edge of downtown Gallipolis, Ohio. Many of those buried in the space were members of the John Gee African Methodist Episcopal Church, today known as the John Gee Black Historical Center.
Jun 28, 2024 · A historic Black cemetery in Dublin was dedicated Friday morning after years of being lost to time. Brown-Harris Cemetery is tucked in a former farm field near Ohio State’s Wexner Outpatient Care Dublin off University Boulevard. Today, it’s surrounded by a wrought-iron fence with stone pillars. In the center is an obelisk monument to the ...
- Allie Vugrincic
The cemetery is located in the city of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, and is # 7045 (Collingwood Cemetery / Phillips Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society. The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (ODRE) as Collingwood Cemetery with registration license number CGR.0000981173.
Jun 29, 2020 · A 19th-century cemetery for Black residents of Washington Township could be opened to the public as an historic site in Dublin in summer 2022.
