March 28, 2024
Clemson University hired Carrel Cowan-Ricks of Michigan in the Department of Historic Houses and the College of Architecture in 1991. At the time, she was one of just three Black female archeologists in the United States. Tasked with finding evidence of a historic Black burial ground on the western slope of Woodland Cemetery as expansion […]
February 12, 2024
By Marquise Drayton, Community Engagement Assistant This post is re-published from the February 2024 newsletter. Last month’s edition of the newsletter featured a story that discussed enslaved people at Fort Hill Plantation and their lives with the Calhouns. This month, we will discuss the continuation of African American labor through sharecropping, tenant farming, and domestic […]
January 29, 2024
By Dr. Mandi Barnard, Research Historian for the Cemetery Project This post is re-published from the January 2024 newsletter. The Cemetery Project works to recognize and recover the history of the African descended persons who lived on this land and were buried in the African American Burial Ground at Cemetery Hill. Over the past year, […]
January 10, 2024
This post is re-published from the January 2024 newsletter. The cemetery, nestled beside Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium (“Death Valley”), at Clemson University is now open again to the public for visitation. The 17.5-acre wooded area actually has three burial grounds: the African American Burial Ground, Andrew Pickens Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery. Over the […]
