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A new report from the University of South Florida suggests the footprint of Tampa’s Myrtle Hill Cemetery was once much larger than it is today, raising questions about whether graves were ever present under two businesses that sit on the land today.
"At a point and time, there were over 55 acres of Myrtle Hill Cemetery that were sold and parceled out,” said Dr. Erin Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist at the USF who’s been researching erased cemeteries in the Tampa Bay area for several years.
“A number of businesses have since been built on those different parcels, and there was an easement that was related to the road that falls to the county,” she told 10 Investigates' Emerald Morrow last week.
For more: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/erased/unmarked-cemeteries-myrtle-hill-black-graves/67-8b227808-f6dc-4dde-97ed-1d5712490e96
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