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Hope Mills adopts resolution closing McCrae family cemetery to future sale
Summary
The board adopted Resolution R2025-024 closing the McCrae family cemetery to any future sale, citing records for 46 graves and references to at least 32 additional unlocated graves on the property.
The Hope Mills Board of Commissioners voted to adopt Resolution R2025-024 on Sept. 15, closing the McCrae family cemetery to future sale.
Staff told the board town records confirm 46 marked grave sites; the town was also told by a local funeral home representative that at least 32 additional graves may exist in the parcel but are not currently located on town records. The resolution states the property will be excluded from any future town land sales and takes immediate effect.
The board read the resolution into the record and approved it by motion. The action was presented as a measure to protect known and suspected grave sites and to prevent inadvertent transfer of burial grounds to private ownership.
Why it matters: The resolution removes the possibility that historically important family graves in the town’s inventory could be conveyed in a future disposal; it recognizes both documented and unrecorded burials on the parcel.
What’s next: Town staff will update land records and ensure the cemetery closure is applied to future land transactions; the resolution directs administrative steps without imposing new financial obligations reported at the meeting.
