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People buried there. Tell me about the origins of the cemetery. When was it first created . 1864. Was first created in during the civil war a lot of africanamericans were running away from slavery. There were also some free blacks who were in alexandria. They were dying in large numbers. The land with top skated the land was confiscated. They were buried there. The cemetery goes from 1864 to 1868. That many people died. 17 to 1800 people died. Was inmentioned it disrepair for quite a number of years. About half a century. Tell me how it was discovered. The city purchased a gas station. They started to date and confirmed there was a cemetery. They looked at maps. First, they did not find a cemetery on the map. Built,e gas station was the map was changed. They had to go back to earlier maps. That is when they found out it was called the freed men cemetery. Tell me what artifacts existed at the cemetery when it was rediscovered. They did not exhume any bodies. They then a fight it was a c
Memorial-cemeteryWashingtonUnited-statesVirginiaOmaha-beachBasse-normandieFranceAlexandriaAl-iskandariyahEgyptAmericanThat and on the opposite side, in windsor there is one facing our statue pointing back on this side. Gateway to freedom means that this was the passageway or the route to get to canada to freedom. Was aderground railroad loose mechanism for the freedom seekers to escape to freedom. So, throughout the north especially, their work safe havens. The idea was to get across the ohio river from the slave states to the free states and so there were a lot of safe havens throughout illinois, indiana, forthpittsburgh, and so as well as michigan. The founders future founders of second baptist got involved in the underground railroad before they were even a church. Before they were even a place of worship back in 1831 when thornton and Lucy Blackburn escaped from a plantation in kentucky. The colored community was involved in helping them escape to toronto, in canada. To numbers, mr. And mrs. Lightfoot and mr. And mrs. French were prominent in that escape and they were future members of the second
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