Seay Chapel Restoration Continues With Saturday Workday
Volunteers can join the work Saturday to restore the Seay Chapel and its surrounding historic grounds in Alexandria with approximately 500 unmarked graves. Friends of Alexandria Historic Cemeteries District Co-Chair Kristina Wheeler said the site is a designated historic district that contains some of the earliest burials in DeKalb County. Wheeler said the location is […]
Researchers Memorialize Hundreds Of Unmarked Graves
Dekalb County Researchers identifying and memorializing some 450 unmarked graves located in the African American section of the Alexandria historic district cemetery. Co-chair Kristina Wheeler said the project is currently in its first phase, which involves dedicating an initial tombstone featuring 100 names. The monument will be unveiled Tuesday. “I think for us it’s an […]
