Headstones in historic Black cemetery were desecrated. The recovery offers 'symbolic justice'

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Five years ago, Virginia State Sen. Richard Stuart stumbled upon a two-mile stretch of erosion control filled with gravestones along the riverfront of the property he had just purchased in King George County. Historians revealed that the gravestones once belonging to a historic African American cemetery in 1960 were dug up and dumped along the Potomac River to make way for commercial development.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/...?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/...?d=7Q72WNTAKBA</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/...pQ:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/...?d=qj6IDK7rITs</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/...pQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ</img>


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