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SENECA — A trail project that intends to preserve black history in the neighboring communities of Oconee and Pickens counties is currently in the design phase.

A grant from the Mellon Foundation will preserve Black history at Clemson University and in the cities of Clemson and Seneca.

At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past MICHELLE LIU, Associated Press/Report for America April 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14Flowers adorn a fence marking an African American cemetery site at Woodland Cemetery in Clemson, South Carolina on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Students at Clemson University who found an unkempt graveyard on campus last year sparked the discovery of more than 600 unmarked graves most likely belonging to enslaved Black people, sharecroppers and convicted laborers. The revelation has Clemson working to identify the dead and properly ...

Clemson, South Carolina On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium. The flags are a recent addition, marking the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school, and before that, the plantation on which it sits. Hundreds more of the flags are dotted among existing gravestones, and until lately, most visitors stepped unknowingly over their remains. “C...

April 7, 2021 Share On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium. The flags are a recent addition, marking the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school, and before that, the plantation on which it sits. Hundreds more of the flags are dotted among existing gravestones, and until lately, most visitors stepped unknowingly over their remains. ...