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Complications over billboard on top of cemetery


Complications over billboard on top of cemetery - NewsBreak

Richmond taking steps to get a billboard off of a historical site. This after the Shockoe Hill African Burial Grounds was officially named a ...

New complications over billboard as city designates its site a cemetery

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) -The city of Richmond is taking new steps to try to get a billboard off of a historical site.

Billboards that towered over Black cemetery to come down | AP News

The judge in the case was advised of the settlement last week, said attorney Mary Coffey. She represents Wanda Brandon, a volunteer whose ...

Billboards come down from Black cemetery in St. Louis | AP News

The removal this week of the six lighted billboards is the result of a settlement in a lawsuit that alleged the signs desecrated the memory of ...

12 On Your Side - The city of Richmond is taking new steps...

The city of Richmond is taking new steps to get a billboard off a historical site after they named the Shockoe Hill African Burying Grounds a cemetery at...

Desecrated 1800s Black Cemetery Found With Graves Still Intact

Archaeologists have made the surprising discovery of intact graves at the seemingly desecrated Shockoe Hill cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Richmond mayor takes aim at billboard atop a historic Black cemetery

Mayor Levar Stoney has asked the Richmond City Council to re-designate Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground as a cemetery, making the billboard illegal.

The environmental pollution caused by cemeteries and cremations

In recent years the funeral industry has drawn attention from the scientific community concerning the potential pollution of the environment and the urban ...

Climate change effects in cemeteries: Floating caskets, missing bodies

It's coming for our dead. Great deluges of rain submerge graves and markers. Swift floods set vaults afloat. Slopes erode in scenic hillside ...

Why many graves at Whittier cemetery have vanished

10, 2024. When Jo Skibby went to Rose Hills Memorial Park this spring to visit her uncle's grave, she couldn't find ...

Billboards that towered over Black cemetery to come down

Billboards towering over an African American cemetery in suburban St. Louis will be removed in coming months after a settlement was reached ...

Ten Years Later, Burr Oak Scandal Still Haunts Chicago

Employees of Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Alsip were accused of digging up bodies and re-selling the burial plots, disposing of bones in a remote area.

Hope for Historic Black Cemetery Threatened by Highway

It was this threat that landed Morningstar Tabernacle No. 88 Order of Moses Cemetery and Hall on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's ...

Billboards that towered over Black cemetery to come down

Billboards towering over an African American cemetery in suburban St. Louis will be removed in the coming months after a settlement was ...

Abandoned Cemeteries and Municipal Responsibilites

The Tug Hill Commission Technical and Is- sue Paper Series are designed to help local officials and citizens in the Tug Hill region.

Why do some old graves have cages over them? - Quora

Before the laws against allow doctors access to cadavers for autopsy were created, the only way to get them was grave robbery.

Trump Arlington National Cemetery controversy, explained | Vox

Shoving, insults, politicizing soldiers' gravesites: Why the Arlington incident struck a chord.