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Around 150 local officials, educators and community members gathered to watch as the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground Historical Highway Marker was unveiled at the corner of Fifth and Hospital streets near Interstate 64 on Sunday.

A Richmond burial ground where an estimated 22,000 freed and enslaved Black people were interred two centuries ago may soon be recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.

Woman wants to memorialize unmarked African burial ground CHRIS SUAREZ, Richmond Times-Dispatch FacebookTwitterEmail This aerial photo shows 1305 North 5th Street, the site of an African burial ground, in Richmond , Va., on Saturday, May 1, 2021. (Daniel Sangib/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)Daniel Sangjib Min/AP RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lenora McQueen came to Richmond four years ago to learn more about her fourth great-grandmother. That’s when she found out where she was buried in the city. Sh...