Outside Chattanooga, there is The Field.
Thousands of people – most of them, Black – were buried there from the late 19th into the early 20th century in a cemetery known as a “potter’s field,” the final resting place for those who could not afford to buy their own plot.
And then, the cemetery was abandoned – and forgotten – until this century, when it was rediscovered during the construction of the White Oak Connector Trail from Stringer’s Ridge in Chattanooga to White Oak Park in Red Bank…