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Atlanta, Georgia: “A cemetery of their own.” Visiting South-View (ca. 1886)

Format ImagePosted on August 13, 2019by Cypher6

South-View Cemetery, ca. 1886. Photo: Nadia K. Orton, August 12, 2019. All rights reserved.

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Categories Atlanta, Emancipation, Fulton County, Georgia, Georgia Cemeteries, Image Posts, Preservation, Reconstruction, Slavery, U. S. Colored Troops, veterans

Tags #featured, Atlanta, cemetery iconography, family history, George "Union" Wilder, Georgia, Preservation, South-View Cemetery, veterans

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Professional genealogist and public historian. Graduate of Duke University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in African/African American Studies and Political Science, with a certificate in Market and Management Sciences. Secretary and historian of the Historic Oak Lawn Cemetery Foundation (Suffolk, Virginia). Studying historic African American cemeteries and communities of Virginia and North Carolina.

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