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Thursday March 28th 2024

Posts Tagged ‘Lafayette Mason’

Tales from Pioneer and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery

Tales from Pioneer and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery

178th  in a Series By SUE HUNTER WEIR Lafayette Mason””One Mpls.”™ First Black Firefighters  Musician, Artist, and Southside High Football Captain Other than some graffiti on about a dozen fence pillars, the Cemetery was untouched during the protests on Lake Street.  The graffiti was gone within a few days but the stories about the lives of those who are buried inside the gates continue.  It”™s obvious to passersby that the Cemetery is old.  What is less obvious is that the Cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Sites because of the people who are buried there.  For the most part they were not famous but collectively their stories tell how the city and state were built. Some of them had ties to the early abolitionist and anti-slavery movements in Minnesota and others because it was a favored burial site for members of the early African-American community, many of whom led [...]

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