Ross Hill Cemetery

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Title

Ross Hill Cemetery

Subject

Cemetery, Burial, Mississippi, Black Land Ownership, Ross Hill, Family

Description

Taken relatively recently, this shows the cemetery that holds the graves of many of the original Ross Hill community and their descendants. It is unknown whether the community still exists, but the existence of this burial ground cements these families’ long term settlement near Houston in years past.

Date

Circa 2010

Contributor

Lauren Woolf

Format

Digital photograph

Type

Still image

Coverage

Parkersburg, MS

Files

ross hill.jpg

Citation

“Ross Hill Cemetery,” Coming Up North: A History Harvest About Black Migration to Beloit, Wisconsin, accessed April 27, 2024, https://beloitdigitalarchives.com/HistoryHarvest/items/show/166.

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