December 5, 2023
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant for the Cemetery Project This post is part of the December 2023 newsletter. Woodland Cemetery at Clemson University will be approaching its centennial year in 2024. Catalyzed by the death of a university president in 1924, “Cemetery Hill” was its original name for the Andrew Pickens Calhoun Family plot.¹ […]
November 6, 2023
By Dr. Mandi Barnard, Research Historian for the African American Burial Ground, Andrew P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This piece is re-posted from the November 2023 newsletter. The war to end all wars ended in armistice at 11:00 AM on November 11, 1918. In the years since, Armistice Day, or […]
October 4, 2023
By Dr. Rhondda Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Call My Name Faculty Director, and Coordinator of Research and Community Engagement for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This piece is re-posted from the October 2023 newsletter. Although Clemson University is devoting major attention to documenting the history of Woodland […]
September 5, 2023
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant for the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the September 2023 newsletter Outside of the head coach for Clemson Football, the Clemson University President is one of the most identifiable campus leaders at the land grant institution in Upstate South […]
August 2, 2023
By Deborah Robinson, Genealogist for the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the August 2023 newsletter. The common thread that weaves through all those interred in Woodland Cemetery is each played an integral part in the university’s current existence. Part of the cemetery’s genealogy research agenda […]
July 11, 2023
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the July 2023 newsletter. Ironically, both flagship universities in South Carolina and Louisiana stake their claim over who’s “the real Death Valley.”1 According to a 1945 account by Presbyterian College Head Coach Lonnie […]
June 14, 2023
By Dr. Rhondda Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Call My Name Faculty Director, and Coordinator of Research and Community Engagement for the African American Burial Ground and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project This post is re-published from the June 2023 newsletter. Download the full June 2023 newsletter On March 11, 1946, among the five […]
May 16, 2023
By Lucas DeBenedetti, Undergraduate Research Assistant It’s difficult to put into words how much this project has meant to me over the past two years. As I prepare to graduate from Clemson on Friday, May 12, I have been reflecting on my time working for the Woodland Cemetery Project. I joined the cemetery project in […]
May 1, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the May 2023 newsletter. Read the full May 2023 newsletter. By Dr. David Markus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice One of the most significant points the ongoing research and community engagement of the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation […]
April 3, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the April 2023 newsletter. Read the full April 2023 newsletter. By Lucas DeBenedetti, Undergraduate Research Assistant This past month Sue Hiott, curator of exhibits for Clemson University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, recovered new evidence, in the form of four color photographs, which adds more context to the […]
