There are 2 article(s) tagged Cynthia Sadler:

• April 2024

  • Orange Mound’s Reconstruction history comes into focus

    A cemetery for the Deaderick Plantation, which later became the core of the Orange Mound subdivision, has been ground zero for efforts to chart what life was like for those in the Reconstruction era after slavery.

    By Bill Dries April 29, 2024

• December 2019

  • Archaeologists help map plantation that became Orange Mound

    The tiny Deaderick family cemetery in Orange Mound was once much bigger. And this week, an archaeological effort by the city and several Orange Mound groups found evidence of more graves beyond the wrought iron fence of the cemetery along Park Avenue. 

    By Bill Dries December 13, 2019