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Residents, preservation group ask Opelika council to protect historic cemetery amid adjacent development
Summary
Speakers during the Aug. 19 public-comment period told the Opelika City Council that volunteers and engineers have identified anomalies consistent with burials inside an old cemetery that sits within an active development area.
Speakers during the Aug. 19 public-comment period told the Opelika City Council that volunteers, local preservationists and engineers have been working to identify unmarked graves at a historic cemetery inside an active development site and urged protections.
Mac Morris, who identified himself as a member of the Lee County Cemetery Preservation Committee, told the council that volunteers cleared undergrowth, and that BSI Engineering conducted a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey. "The Grampett and Trade Radar showed some plenty of anomalies inside the boundary line which could be identified as gray," Morris said in the meeting transcript,…
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