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‘If these cemeteries could talk…’

Names of freed slaves recited over their graves at Mt. Pisgah

While guiding the Old Mt. Pisgah Cemetery tour, Willow Hill Center board President Dr. Alvin Jackson, right, stands beside the grave of Georgia Ann Riggs Parrish, 1859-1938, who became the Willow Hill School’s first teacher in 1874. Listening at left is Earl Donaldson, who like Jackson has ancestors interred in the cemetery. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

Mt.Pisgah Teacher Grave 2.JPG — While guiding the Old Mt. Pisgah Cemetery tour, Willow Hill Center board President Dr. Alvin Jackson, right, stands beside the grave of Georgia Ann Riggs Parrish, 1859-1938, who became the Willow Hill School’s first teacher in 1874. Listening at left is Earl Donaldson, who like Jackson has ancestors interred in the cemetery. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

The series of African-American cemetery tours that the Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center launched this month at the Old Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery does not shy from the legacy of slavery in America and here in Bulloch County.

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