Several members of the Belmont Heights community went to Tampa City Hall Thursday morning to show their support for making the Memorial Park Cemetery a local historical landmark.
Donated to First Baptist Church in 1950, Steele Cemetery is one of the few Black cemeteries in Versailles. Now, its leaders are working to identify hundreds of unmarked graves.
The city of Salisbury will cover the cost of repairing broken headstones that were pushed off their bases or knocked over in recent weeks at the historic African American Dixonville Cemetery off Old Concord Road.