A Central Texas Boy Scout whose family uncovered a forgotten and overgrown cemetery dating back nearly 175 years has cleaned it up and restored it for an Eagle Scout project.

Roughly 13,000 of those have been accurately mapped and 2,500 have received Historic Texas Cemetery ... by local or county governance, and cemeteries long abandoned after designated ...

“Most Black cemeteries are endangered spaces that are either undocumented, abandoned or erased altogether,” Davis says. At the Pear Orchard Cemetery, only 470 headstones remain out of 1,116 ...