Locals, UGA students study Harmony Grove grave site in hopes of adding it on National Historic Register

  • From left to right, Kassadi Saunders, Sara Castro, Ellen Davenport, Zainab Saccoh, Diane Merritt, Howard Curry, Emily Dukes, Pooja Bangera, Rosanna Cruz-Bibb, Aries Aviles, and Flavio Salgedo Avila. The team was assembled to research the grave site outside Harmony Grove Baptist Church in an attempt to add it to the National Historic Register.
    From left to right, Kassadi Saunders, Sara Castro, Ellen Davenport, Zainab Saccoh, Diane Merritt, Howard Curry, Emily Dukes, Pooja Bangera, Rosanna Cruz-Bibb, Aries Aviles, and Flavio Salgedo Avila. The team was assembled to research the grave site outside Harmony Grove Baptist Church in an attempt to add it to the National Historic Register.

    On Saturday Oct. 30, a group of UGA students came to research a post-American Civil War cemetery that contained the graves of several slaves in hopes of placing it on the National Historic Register fo…