Black History Month: Week 1 wect.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wect.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - All month long we are highlighting places, people, and moments that shaped Black history in southeastern North Carolina. A student .
Civil War Heritage Area adds Westminster s Ellsworth Cemetery to its boundaries – Baltimore Sun baltimoresun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from baltimoresun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The historic Ellsworth Cemetery in Westminster is now part of the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, recognizing the cemetery’s December 1876 founding by six Black Civil War veterans. On Jan. 11, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority approved expanding the Civil War Heritage Area to encompass the historic cemetery, a final resting place for many prominent Black residents of Carroll County. .
Westminster’s Planning and Zoning Commission is slated to review an annexation request for the Ellsworth Cemetery this week and forward a recommendation to the mayor and Common Council.