Harvard honors San Antonio landscape architect for preserving Black historical sites
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Local historian Everett Fly points to a cedar fence post on the northern boundary of the site of the Winters-Jackson cemetery, an African American graveyard on the northeast side that dates back to the late 1800s, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. In 1986, without consent, land developers removed the remains of 72 people from the private cemetery and reinterred them at nearby Holy Cross Cemetery. MARVIN PFEIFFER/mpfeiffer@express-news.netMarvin Pfeiffer, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Landscape architect and historian Everett Fly documents the removal of fencing on the grounds of the Hockley Cemetery. Contractors moved the fences of residents whose property overlapped to the cemetery that Fly discovered in a Northeast Side neighborhood on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Editorial: Cemetery s designation would honor past, present
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In this photo from January, 2020, the Hockley-Clay Cemetery has been cleared and marked. It’s taken one more step toward an official historic designation, and with it preservation of a piece of San Antonio’s Black history.Josie Norris /The San Antonio Express-News
History is what we cherish; neglected gardens we discover and nurture, special people we won’t allow to be forgotten. Whether we celebrate it in public ceremony or private commemoration, the importance of celebrating history is that we also teach it.
Unmarked graves are lives that, if not already forgotten, will soon be lost in the brushes of time. Stories not told equate to history unheard and forgotten.
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Final public meeting set on historic Black church site on San Pedro Creek in San Antonio
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Work continues on the San Pedro Creek project by the Alameda Theater, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Crews work on the Houston Street bridge by the foundations of the 1800’s St. James AME Church, one of the oldest Black churches in Texas, (left). The public has until March 8 to weigh in on eight redesign options for the site as part of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News
San Antonians have one more chance to make their voices heard publicly about what they think is the best way to preserve and promote historical finds at San Pedro Creek, including what’s left of one of the oldest Black churches in Texas.