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Residents press Roswell to add Pleasant Hill Cemetery to city maintenance, discuss Doc’s Cafe preservation
Summary
Several residents urged the city to include Pleasant Hill Cemetery in municipal maintenance, cited its history as a burial site for enslaved people, and asked for clearer preservation plans for Doc's Cafe and other historic assets.
Residents at the March 31 Roswell open forum pressed council and staff to add Pleasant Hill Cemetery to the city's maintenance inventory and to take steps to preserve and better activate historic Black heritage sites such as Doc’s Cafe.
Gail Bohannon McCoy and others told council volunteers have maintained Pleasant Hill for years and asked why the city funds maintenance of Founders Cemetery and the Roswell Historic Cemetery but not Pleasant Hill. City staff told residents the city currently maintains Founders Cemetery (off…
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