Category: GPR Work

Off-Campus Statewide Gravesites that belong to Clemson University

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 […]

Our GPR Findings

October 23, 2020

After the initial findings were announced in August, the site team conducted several phases of additional ground-penetrating radar (GPR) work that ultimately resulted in a new survey of the cemetery. That work revealed 604 unmarked burials—most of them clustered on the northern, northwestern, and western slopes of the hill, the area long understood as the […]