ASHEVILLE – Kudzu-choked and overgrown, Western North Carolina’s oldest public African American cemetery was a veritable forest before George Gibson took matters into his own hands. It was the mid-1980s when, armed with a pair of hedge clippers and a sleigh, Gibson began the task of uncovering the nearly 2-acre…Read More
Kenilworth is home to WNCs oldest public Black cemetery Meet the men who saved it
