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Their names are not known. Their birth dates, nor date of death are known. In fact, no one really knows how many bodies are buried in a mass grave site for slaves in the Lexington City Cemetery.
The Rev. Dr. Arnetta Beverly does know this, however the men and women buried near the single rock and slab marker deserve remembering. We are the descendants of those slaves, she said. I think they need to be recognized because we really are standing on their shoulders.
Beverly s congregation at St. Stephen United Methodist Church will hold the second annual Service of Commemoration for the slaves buried at the site at 2 p.m. Feb. 21. The gravesite is near the North State Street side of the cemetery. The congregation held a commemoration and committal service last year at the cemetery.
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Four hundred thirty-six acres of land in the western part of Davidson County that was once home to hundreds of dairy cows for the Coble Dairy Farm is inching closer to becoming the largest housing development per density in the county s history.
The proposal by Hubbard Realty of Winston-Salem and an unnamed prospective buyer to build 1,078 single-family and condo homes on three tracts of land along Tyro and Old Salisbury roads and Front Street is scheduled to come before the Davidson County Planning and Zoning Board at the end of February. In turn, the planning and zoning board will make a recommendation to the Davidson County Board of Commissioners to approve, deny or study the proposal more for possible modifications. The board of commissioners has the final say.
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For more than 31 years, Lexington City Clerk Tina Lanier has had not just a front-row seat for every day and historical changes for the city, but also been the one responsible for making sure every minute and every aspect of these changes are recorded correctly for future generations.
The Denton resident has made the 19-mile trip back and forth from her home in southern Davidson to the county seat thousands of times for work. She remembers thinking how long the drive was during that first trip she made from Denton to be interviewed for a secretarial position in the Finance Department, and boy was her first day on the job in that department memorable.
Local school systems struggle with returning to in-person learning
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As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase school systems in the area are struggling to balance the need to return students to the classroom with protecting them and their staff from exposure to the virus.
While several school districts have already resumed in-person learning under an altered schedule, other districts have chosen to remain fully remote until the end of the third nine-weeks in March.
Lexington City Schools
Lexington City School students will not be returning to in-person learning on Jan. 17 as originally planned.
Members of the Lexington City Schools Board of Education voted during their meeting on Tuesday night to remain in Option C, all remote learning until the end of the first semester in March.
All roads lead to grandma: Lexington woman honored with street naming
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Francis Burns has seen a lot of changes in the past 45 years she has lived off of Cotton Grove Road in Lexington. The most recent and, according to her, amazing change is that city officials have named the alley behind her house after her in honor of the contributions she has given to the community.
“It was really a surprise,” Burns said. “I was shocked, but I am so proud and tickled.”
Burns is the first recipient of a new honorary street designation program the Lexington City Council approved in November.