Alongside a bustling downtown Raleigh street – surrounded by homes, shops and construction work – is the last place you might expect to find an abandoned cemetery. A crumbling stone wall, decorated with trash and litter, can be seen bulging out of a grassy hillside on the corner of Booker and Hill Street. The antique stone, slightly hidden behind a modern concrete wall, which seems to be holding it together, surrounds land once described as ‘hallowed ground.’ But today, most people drive right past without ever noticing.
For those who take a closer look, the old stone wall has markings that date it back to the 1800s. From above, it becomes obvious the wall is part of a larger structure, forming an almost-perfect square on a grassy hilltop – only visible from above.
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