The Washtenaw County Historic Preservation Commission and the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County are restoring Ypsilanti Township’s Woodlawn Cemetery.
Hidden among overgrowth with most of its grave markers sunken beneath the earth lies the legacy of Pastor Gather Roberson Sr., who acquired land in Ypsilanti Township to be the county’s first and only Black cemetery.
By 1965, Woodlawn Cemetery was declared abandoned…