Sourland Mountain, a once-isolated region in New Jersey, has long inspired tall tales. Two local women turned “history detectives” have been trying to recover its true story.
Source: New York Times
Uncovering a Cemetery's Lost Black History, Stone by Stone
Published in Black People, Buck, Elaine (1953- ), Cemeteries, Content Type: Personal Profile, Genealogy, Hopewell (NJ), If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley, Sourland Mountain and Surrounding Regions of New Jersey (Book), Mills, Beverly (1950- ), Museum of the American Revolution, museums, Research, Slavery (Historical), Stoutsburg Cemetery (Hopewell, NJ) and Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (Hopewell, NJ)
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