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Largely forgotten Black burial ground suggests remains lie under Easton park
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Nesquehoning Street Park is seen Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at 325 W. Nesquehoning St. in Easton. It was one of seven so-called pocket parks citywide studied under a municipal contract by Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art with an eye toward making improvements to the properties.Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com
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An effort to improve seven so-called pocket parks around Easton has rediscovered a remnant from our segregationist past.
One of the properties being studied, Nesquehoning Street Park on South Side, appears to have been created atop a burial ground for Black people, according to park improvement planners from Easton-based Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art.