A mission to mark unnamed graves in Mecklenburg County has led to the placement of over 180 flags at burial sites along Ridge Road and Morehead Road.
The effort aims to preserve the legacy of what is identified as an African American burial site, where the Siloam Presbyterian Church once stood before it burned down in 1958.
“With all the new development and things that have been built around it, we just want to make sure that our ancestors and everybody here is not forgotten,” said Denise Turner, a relative of someone buried at the site…