By Adam Parker
aparker@postandcourier.com
Locally, the initiative would directly benefit Charlestonâs Gullah Society, which works to identify, document and preserve Black burial grounds throughout South Carolina.
The Gullah Society was among nearly 60 organizations that submitted a letter of support to House leaders in November last year.
A House bill, introduced in February 2019 by Rep. Alma Adams, D-.N.C., details the project, which would be administered by the National Park Service. It is modeled after two similar projects NPS manages: âWe Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movementâ and âThe National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.â
WILMINGTON – Thumb through any local historian’s personal library and you’re likely to find a dog-eared, well-worn copy of Beverly Tetterton’s book, “Wilmington: Lost but Not Forgotten.”
A guide to the built history that defined Wilmington but fell victim to its progress and time, the book is an essential text on this region from its most essential historical voice of the last quarter century.
As the former special collections librarian and chief of the New Hanover County Library’s North Carolina Room, Tetterton has brought history to the masses in a way her predecessors didn’t. The likes of celebrated historians James Sprunt and Louis T. Moore preserved the Cape Fear’s stories in written accounts that have served as the backbone of local research for 100 years.