Black Cemeteries

The next step in the search for graves from the lost Zion Cemetery continued Tuesday morning in a Tampa auto impound lot.Four workers from the private…

MacDill Air Force Base will start an investigation in January into reports that a lost African American cemetery could be inside its gates.The cemetery…

King High School is the site of an African-American cemetery, Hillsborough County school officials confirmed Wednesday.In addition, County Commissioner…

We could know by next week whether King High School is resting on a forgotten cemetery.Experts from GeoView Inc., a geophysical consulting firm, began…

Hillsborough County School officials are looking into the possibility that some grounds of King High School rest on what was a cemetery for indigent…

“Zion Cemetery isn’t lost – Zion Cemetery was erased.”That was the message from one University of South Florida archaeologist at a recent presentation at…

Last fall, a cemetery historian came upon a few death certificates from a little-known Tampa burial ground called Zion and he wanted help to learn more…