Dr. Lynn Rainville began studying slave cemeteries in Virginia in 2001. Since then the project has expanded to study historic African-American Cemeteries in Virginia.
Virginia contains thousands of family burial grounds and consecrated cemeteries. These final resting places preserve invaluable biographical information about the past residents of the county. The African-American Cemeteries in Central Virginia Project is dedicated to locating, documenting, and preserving historic African-American cemeteries.
To locate, protect, preserve, and disseminate information about historic African-American cemeteries.
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