AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - City leaders have focused hurricane recovery efforts on the living but Helene disturbed the dead, causing damage to cemeteries throughout Augusta. If you’re thinking ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Augusta’s city cemeteries remain closed as have they been since Helene hit more than three months ago, but progress is being made. “Some of the safety issues with the ...

HAMILTON, Ga. — The chain-link fence slices through the Hamilton City Cemetery, ... The cemeteries were begun between 1879 and 1894 and have been abandoned since at least the early 1960s.

The cemeteries are in a formerly Black enclave known from the mid-19th century through the 1930s as Herring Hill, where residents fished for the once-plentiful herring in nearby Rock Creek.