Articles by Nadia K. Orton, Sacred Grounds Project
Over the weekend, we started a project to map the extant interments of Oak Lawn (est. 1885). Since our first visit to Oak Lawn...
Photo: Nadia K. Orton, January 14, 2022. All rights reserved. A few days ago, we met with a descendant of a Tidewater, Virginia cemetery...
Photo: Nadia K. Orton, 2019. All rights reserved. Thanks so much to the members of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Richmond, Virignia), for...
Happy to see the replacement gravestone of 1st Sgt. Ashley H. Lewis, 1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, from Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Photo:...
Many thanks to the members of the Black Family Genealogy and History Society for the invitation to speak, and warm reception. ...
