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Why a group is restoring this long-forgotten black cemetery in Forsyth County

A headstone for Olivia Strickland stands in the Stoney Point Cemetery in Forsyth County. The overgrown and forgotten cemetery tucked in the woods between two neighborhoods is being revived by Hall County’s Jim Harris, back, along with help from the Historical Society of Cumming/Forsyth County and many others.

20200215_StoneyPointCemetery_1_web — A headstone for Olivia Strickland stands in the Stoney Point Cemetery in Forsyth County. The overgrown and forgotten cemetery tucked in the woods between two neighborhoods is being revived by Hall County’s Jim Harris, back, along with help from the Historical Society of Cumming/Forsyth County and many others.

Members of the Historical Society of Cumming/Forsyth County and others are working to bring back to life a cemetery in Cumming that’s been forgotten.

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