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<p>"The stories of Mt. Holly have become the sinew that could connect the town, or borough, as it is officially designated, from its past glory days, through some recent decline, to a new version of thriving."</p>
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The Mt. Tabor Preservation Project and Dickinson College’s Department of Environmental Sciences put together a project to have solar lights placed on unmarked graves at the Cedar Street Cemetery. Larry Foster places a light at the grave of his grandmother Luvenia Foster and his niece Kimberly Collins. Photo by Vicki Vellios Briner, for PennLive.comVicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive
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Mt. Tabor Preservation Project placing solar lights on unmarked graves at Cedar Street Cemetery
The solar lights were added as a visual reminder of the more than 50 people buried in the historic African American cemetery. Author: Rachel Yonkunas (FOX43) Updated: 10:32 PM EDT April 10, 2021
MT HOLLY SPRINGS, Pa. There is a lot history buried at the Cedar Street Cemetery in Mt. Holly Springs, Cumberland County, and the Mt. Tabor Preservation Project is making sure those stories are told. The non-profit teamed up with Dickinson College to place solar lights on unmarked graves at the cemetery
Carmen James, president of the Mt. Tabor Preservation Project, grew up on Cedar Street, not far from the African American cemetery.
‘It’s a way to honor them’: Lights glow at unmarked graves in African American cemetery PennLive.com 6 hrs ago Jan Murphy, pennlive.com
MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS – A warm glow now rises above previously unmarked graves of 44 people who lay in rest in the Cedar Street Cemetery.
On Saturday, members of the Mt. Tabor Preservation Project and volunteers gathered at the historic African American cemetery to install solar lights on the graves that had no headstones.
It was the culmination of several years’ worth of work to memorialize a portion of the African American history of the post-Civil War era in this Cumberland County borough.