Mountains-to-Sea Trail improvements
Photos courtesy of Oak Ridge MST Committee
Earlier this month, members of Oak Ridge’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST) Committee put the finishing touches on a split-rail fence surrounding the trailhead parking lot on Linville Road. Nearby is a kiosk built by two representatives of Friends of the MST, a statewide organization. When completed, the kiosk will show information such as a map of the trail which runs nearly 1,200 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks.
Searching for unmarked graves in Summerfield
Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO
BITS & PIECES
Orange markers in the Peace Church cemetery on Scalesville Road in Summerfield identify possible graves of slaves, freed slaves and soldiers who died in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Summerfield’s Historical Committee paid for ground-penetrating radar to look for soil disturbances that may signal the presence of unmarked graves, according to a Facebook post by Summerfield Peace United Methodist Church last month. Compilation of the readings by the radar contractor will indicate the number of possible graves.
