The Lost Cemetery

Walter C. Pierce was no different from any other community park until one May afternoon in 2001, when a group of volunteers picking up trash came across a bone that was shaped like a femur. After some metaphoric and literal digging, a research team led by Mary Belcher and Mark Mack unearthed a series of grave markers and eventually found that over 8,000 African-Americans, most of whom were slaves, had been buried underneath the park and forgotten.