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CLEARWATER ― The 70 graves found on the FrankCrum company’s campus were initially announced to have been unmarked burials accidentally left behind when St. Matthews Baptist Church Cemetery was moved

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How Tampa Bay’s lost cemeteries impact those who own the land The FrankCrum company was going to build an addition on their Clearwater campus until they learned the property has graves.     Archaeologists with Cardno, Rebecca O’Sullivan, left, and Eric Prendergast, work to sift through sand while working to confirm ground-penetrating radar results which indicated 70 graves from where Clearwaters black St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery were located at the FrankCrum s...

Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Last year, ground-penetrating radar revealed that a purportedly empty cemetery in Clearwater, Florida, might not actually be empty. To longtime residents of the area, it wasn’t exactly news. As Smithsonianreports, the North Greenwood Cemetery opened in 1940 and provided burial plots for members of Clearwater’s Black community until 1954, when the city decided to build a high school and a pool on the land instead. Officials relocated 350 graves several miles north,...

The Districts Dine Out for Charity in Clearwater to help feed local families 10% of sales donated to Salvation Army Dine Out for Charity in Clearwater to help feed local families By: Sean OReilly and last updated 2020-12-16 08:01:10-05 CLEARWATER, Fla. — Restaurants located in The District want to do their part to help families struggling to put food on their tables this holiday season. Thirteen restaurants are participating in the first-ever The 400 and 500 blocks of Clev...