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Family members of those buried at the lost College Hill Cemetery in Tampa continue to fight for answers on where the graves of their loved ones are located.
It’s an issue that’s been highlighted recently here in the Tampa Bay Area: erased cemeteries, their re-discovery, the fight to preserve them. On Friday, one cemetery received a special dedication, while advocates shared the progress in addressing the problem.
A new historical marker was unveiled Friday at the site of the old College Hill Cemetery in Tampa, where hundreds of minorities, mostly African Americans, were buried more than a century ago, before they were erased from maps in the mid-20th century.