An interesting part of this country's history.
The church burned a few years after it was constructed...
Uhh yikes I'm curious about that!
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Aren't all cemeteries "historic"?
In a sense, yes, especially if they've been in use for a very long time. Normally, when people speak of "historic" cemeteries, they're talking about ones that haven't seen any use for many decades.
I live within about 100 km of a dozen or so rural cemeteries. Easily half haven't been used for 30+ years. Even though the active ones have interments that might be older than the oldest in the unused ones, it's the unused ones, associated with families and communities that no longer exist, that are considered historic.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Decades after a historic Alberta cemetery was reclaimed from the forest, a group of volunteers is preserving both the graves and the stories of the Black pioneers who were buried there.
Headstones will soon be placed to mark the burial plots of 13 men, women and children interred at the Bethel Baptist Cemetery, one of the last remaining traces of the once-thriving Black settlement of Campsie, Alta., about 135 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
"This community hasn't really been given a whole bunch of recognition," said Beaver, the founder of Black Settlers of Alberta and Saskatchewan Historical Society.
They settled primarily in five isolated, rural communities closely connected by kinship and trade: Campsie, Junkins (now Wildwood, Alta.
The Beavers remained in the area for decades but, as the years passed, most of the settler families moved away — and the cemetery they had established was soon swallowed by weeds and brush.
Bill Warwaryick, a member of the Barrhead congregation, said the project began as part of a worldwide day of service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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