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Category: Cemeteries

Black Cemeteries of Polk County, Georgia

February 2, 2022
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| Cemeteries

There are more than 100 known cemeteries in Polk County, Georgia. In the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, it was common for there to be segregation even in death. Below is a list of black cemeteries, many overgrown and no longer in use. Another thing to note: many of the burials listed are from death […]

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An Example of Polk’s Cemetery Preservation Resources

January 25, 2019
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| Cemeteries, Newspaper Articles, People

While browsing the archived Cedartown Standard newspapers on Georgia Historic Newspapers, I came across an article entitled Fatal Accident: Ollie Duke Killed in Rome. Mr. Ollie Duke, a Cedartown young man who has been employed for some time as a taxi driver in Rome, met with a tragic death last week. Mr. Duke was driving […]

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