Recounting Stories of Carrel Cowan-Ricks and the Archeological Dig at Woodland Cemetery
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 […]
