During a Military History Hike on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Mikito Muroya, site interpreter for state historic sites in Springfield, relates the story of how Civil War veteran ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Oak Ridge Cemetery is planning to provide maps, brochures, and events focused on the stories of African American people buried in formerly-segregated areas of the cemetery.

Oak Ridge Cemetery was as its name described. The headstones were interspersed among the ancient trees, and the ridge was one of many that bracketed the northeast-by-southwest-running Shenandoah ...

He started working to preserve Oak Ridge in 2019. "We'll never find out everything about the people in here, but we're having a better understanding of Oak Ridge Cemetery and the people that are ...

If you visit Oak Ridge Cemetery yourself, you can find it on the northwest side of Rose Hill. According to Historic Macon, there are at least 960 burials of both enslaved and free people of color.

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