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Florida, Leon County taking stock of forgotten cemeteries

Florida, Leon County taking stock of forgotten cemeteries
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Unmarked slave graves at Tallahassee country club to get commemoration

The committee was established last year and includes citizens, historians and preservationists, researchers, National Park Service officials and city staff.   Committee member Delatrie Hollinger said the marker language would be coming before a state historical council later this month. We all worked together and I am so proud of it, he said. We’re looking forward to the continuing work of this committee. Proposed Historical Marker Language Houstoun Plantation Cemetery This 19th century cemetery is one of many known abandoned African American cemeteries in Florida. Before 1900, 80 to 100 enslaved and formerly enslaved persons are believed to have been buried here, many of them children and post-Civil War workers. Though visible in the 1920s, the burial ground was later lost, and in the 1970s was rediscovered by state archaeologists. In 2019, archaeological research led to the identification of 23 likely unmarked graves, and 14 additional possible unmarked graves. Edward H

Campus Notes: Two at FSU earn Robert O Lawton Distinguished Professor honor

Two FSU faculty earn Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor honor  Two Florida State University faculty members, one a scholar of Shakespeare and the other a nuclear astrophysicist, will be given the highest honor that the faculty bestow upon their own – they will each be named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. Professor of Physics Jorge Piekarewicz and Professor of English Gary Taylor have been selected to receive the honor for 2021-2022. Both professors are from the College of Arts and Sciences, FSU’s largest and most academically diverse college. The Lawton Distinguished Professor Award was first presented in 1957 as the Distinguished Professor Award. It was renamed in honor of the late Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert O. Lawton in 1981.

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