PHOTOS: Diamond Hill memorial unveiled
A crowd gathers Sunday at the site of the Diamond Hill Cemetery on the grounds of the Berry Hill Plantation to celebrate the unveiling of a memorial honoring the legacy of more than 300 slaves buried at the site.
More than 300 slaves who toiled at the Berry Hill Plantation are buried in unmarked graves at Diamond Hill Cemetery. Attendees of a celebration in which a memorial honoring those buried at Diamond Hill was unveiled walk the hallowed grounds of the cemetery.
Jean Winston, who has ancestors buried at Diamond Hill Cemetery, shares what the unveiling of a memorial honoring those buried at Diamond Hill means to her at a memorial unveiling celebration Sunday afternoon.
Leland Luck, resident historian at Berry Hill Resort & Conference Center, shares the stories of some of the slaves who worked at Berry Hill Plantation at a Sunday event honoring the memory of the slaves buried at the Diamond Hill Cemetery on the grounds of Berry Hill.
Lori Ashwell, whose family operates South Boston Memorials, shares her vision for the Diamond Hill Memorial at a Sunday celebration in which a monument honoring the legacy of those buried at Diamond Hill Cemetery was unveiled.
Halifax County ED-8 supervisor William Bryant Claiborne shares the history of Juneteenth on Sunday at the Diamond Hill Memorial Celebration. The memorial honoring the souls buried at Diamond Hill Cemetery is special to Claiborne because his wife’s great-great grandmother is buried in the cemetery.
Barbara Bass, president of the Halifax County Historical Society, and Leland Luck, resident historian at Berry Hill Resort & Conference Center, unveils the Diamond Hill Memorial, honoring the memory of the slaves buried at Diamond Hill Cemetery, in a Sunday afternoon celebration at the cemetery.
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A memorial for the souls buried at Diamond Hill Cemetery on the Berry Hill Plantation was un…
