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FALL 2022
For Algernon Ward '87, preserving and protecting
the sacred grounds of Locust Hill is high privilege.
The Locust Hill Cemetery first disappeared from Trenton's maps in 1905, its
location alongside the Assunpink Creek rendered blank, with no hint of the Black
citizens buried beneath the ground. For much of the next century, the city's oldest
and largest segregated cemetery served as an informal dumping ground, covered
in coal ash and construction debris, neglected and nearly forgotten.
HONOR
GUARD
Words Liz Leyden Pictures Peter Murphy
