burial ground

Example Sentences

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It later became a burial ground for about 200 people over several centuries.

From Salon

The graves in Williamsburg are among Black burial grounds and cemeteries that are scattered throughout the nation and tell the story of the country’s deep past of slavery and segregation.

From Seattle Times

The agency obtained the remains as it built dams near Native American burial grounds and later gave many of them to universities and museums across the South.

From New York Times

It will include a fountain circled by pairs of bronze hands cast from current residents, and a base made of soil from other African burial grounds across the city, Gilmore explained.

From Seattle Times

During the festival, which is celebrated in Taiwan and China among other countries, families visit ancestral graves to maintain the burial grounds and remember the dead.

From Seattle Times