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When Gerry Thompson recently purchased his new home in Surfside Beach, he was missing a critical piece of information. The home had been built on a cemetery where enslaved people from a nearby plantation and their descendants had been buried.
When Gerry Thompson recently purchased his new home in Surfside Beach, he was missing a critical piece of information.
Several dozen enslaved Africans — 63 as of an 1860 survey — worked and lived on the Ark Plantation in South Carolina, and historians believe scores of people could be buried in the cemetery. Official death records exist for around 60 people. Now, Surfside Beach is honoring that part of the town’s history.