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Harvard honors San Antonio landscape architect for preserving Black historical sites


Harvard honors San Antonio landscape architect for preserving Black historical sites
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Local historian Everett Fly points to a cedar fence post on the northern boundary of the site of the Winters-Jackson cemetery, an African American graveyard on the northeast side that dates back to the late 1800s, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. In 1986, without consent, land developers removed the remains of 72 people from the private cemetery and reinterred them at nearby Holy Cross Cemetery. MARVIN PFEIFFER/[email protected] Pfeiffer, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Landscape architect and historian Everett Fly documents the removal of fencing on the grounds of the Hockley Cemetery. Contractors moved the fences of residents whose property overlapped to the cemetery that Fly discovered in a Northeast Side neighborhood on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Le ....

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