Members of the JHA giving a tour of the Black section of the Boone Cemetery in September 2021. In front-right is Roberta Jackson. In front-center is Lynn Patterson.
Photo courtesy Appalachian State University Film Services.
The JHA raised $5,000 to install a new granite cemetery marker in the Black section of the cemetery. The marker lists the names of 65 Junaluska Community members.
A view of the Black section of the cemetery in April 2022. In the front are four headstones. Three of the headstones are for the white Union soldiers who were interred in the area. The tombstones are new replacements that were installed in Spring…