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LePageville Memorial Cemetery master plan presented to Chatham County commissioners
Summary
A community group and EMC Engineering presented a master plan to preserve LePageville Memorial Cemetery, proposing trails, interpretive signs and a memorial stone; presenters said earlier surveys located burials and recommended the 3.85–4‑acre site be preserved as a memorial, not used for new burials.
Dan Fisher, a landscape architect with EMC Engineering, presented a master plan for the nearly forgotten LePageville workers' village and its cemetery at the Chatham County Board of Commissioners meeting. Fisher said the cemetery sits on roughly 3.85–4 acres near East President Street and that "perhaps as many as 500 individuals have been laid to rest there," with only a handful of marked graves relocated for safekeeping.
"The intent of the presentation is to provide an overview of the nearly forgotten village and cemetery of LePageville," Fisher said, describing…
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