The Locust Hill African Cemetery and Museum receives a $400,000 grant thanks to two supplemental appropriation bills.
The funds will be used to renovate and set up operations for the Locust Hill African Cemetery Museum. The Locust Hill Cemetery, located at 73 Hart Ave. in Trenton, N.J., is the city’s largest segregated African American burial ground — it is where some 200 Trenton citizens from the 1860s are interred, at least 10 of whom are Civil War veterans. .
Members of the 6th Regiment USCT created the Locust Hill Project with the aim of restoring the building on the site and making it an interpretive center/museum. They also want the headstones in the adjoining cemetery repaired and maintained.Amsterdam News is renowned for its reporting of the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years.
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