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Historic African American Section of the Old Hill Burying Ground (Est. 1729)
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This area contains a concentration of graves and stone markers for Black men, women, and children buried in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also includes many unidentified graves found by ground penetrating radar, now marked “Once Known,” reflecting that all were individuals known in their own day even if their names are no longer known today. This section of the cemetery lies across the street from a historic Black neighborhood called “Guinea Village” during that era. Among those buried here are Mercy Small, Susanna Cogswell, Enoch S. Garrison Loring, Fortune, Nancy Haburn, John C.H. Young, and Frankin James Douglas.
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