Amt discovered that a number of veterans were also buried in the Halfway African American Cemetery. It makes it that much more important.вЂќДuring her research, Dr. вЂњBut then in the past year or so with some of the racial reckoning in our country and a greater awareness by more people that only part of our history is usually taught or told or saved. вЂњIt was important to me just because peopleвЂ™s loved ones were buried here,вЂќ Paul said. When sheвЂ™s not teaching in Frederick County, she heads into her backyard to clean up and preserve the overgrown portion of the remaining cemetery with the help of community volunteers as well as students and faculty from Hood College. When she discovered the land was a cemetery, she immediately wanted to learn more. She went to the county in an effort to figure out who actually owned the land. She started researching the cemetery after discovering that one of her neighbors was drinking and littering in the abandoned space. But they do occur in cemeteries.вЂќД®lizabeth Paul lives on a portion of what used to be the Halfway African American Cemetery. вЂњBecause rows of things donвЂ™t normally occur in nature. вЂњWeвЂ™re always looking for different clues, you know, to show us where graves might be so itвЂ™s all about looking for patterns and like those rows of things,вЂќ Dr. Jarrod Burks explaining equipment to Hood College students Burks also brought a magnetometer that scans for can changes in the EarthвЂ™s magnetic field, and an electromagnetic conductivity meter. Burks used three instruments to scan PaulвЂ™s yard, a ground-penetrating radar that transmits radio waves into the ground and listens for echoes, similar to echolocation used by dolphins or the technology used in machines like a fish-finder. Jarrod Burks, an archaeologist and Director of Archaeological Geophysics of Ohio Valley Archaeology, to survey PaulвЂ™s backyard that borders the remaining portion of the cemetery. Amt alongside colleagues at Hood College brought in volunteers and ground-penetrating radar to try and identify a pattern under the surface without disturbing any remaining graves. We do have 155 names of people buried here, but more than 400 people were buried here.вЂќДr. People from all walks of life, buried here, and yet most of them are forgotten,вЂќ Dr. вЂњPeople who were buried here were mostly members of the Jonathan Street community. After connecting a few years ago, they formed the Friends of the Halfway African American Cemetery.

She and Paul hope to reconnect the people buried on Clinton Avenue to their descendants. Amt, the cemetery was used predominately by the African American churches in Hagerstown up until the 1930s. вЂњBut in 1897, this property that was already a cemetery was bought by the Good Samaritans of the Black Fraternal Order in Hagerstown.вЂќДЄccording to Dr. We have a few names of people who were buried here in the 1840s and onward,вЂќ Dt. вЂњWe donвЂ™t know what the origins of the cemetery were.

Plat map of Clinton Avenue and the Halfway African American Cemetery It was a number of years later when she received an email from Elizabeth Paul, whose yard borders the cemetery, reached out to her, asking about the cemetery. She was told that the cemetery was located behind the old Jewish cemetery but because the cemetery is landlocked between different houses and yards, the burial ground is not visible or publicly accessible from Clinton Avenue. JohnвЂ™s Episcopal Church in Hagerstown, who was supposedly buried in the cemetery.

Amt began searching for the cemetery after researching a man, who was a member of the St. Governor Hogan receives legislative and congressional maps from Maryland Citizens Redistricting CommissionДr.

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