New Jersey state Sen. Shirley Ok. Turner and state Meeting Members Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, Anthony Verelli, and Dan Benson have pushed by means of two supplemental appropriation payments granting $400,000 to the Locust Hill African Cemetery Museum.
The funds can be used to renovate and arrange operations for the Locust Hill African Cemetery Museum. The Locust Hill Cemetery, situated at 73 Hart Ave. in Trenton, N.J., is town’s largest segregated African American burial floor — it’s the place some 200 Trenton residents from the 1860s are interred, a minimum of 10 of whom are Civil Warfare veterans.
The concept of creating the museum was promoted and arranged by the sixth Regiment United States Coloured Troops reenactors. Members of the sixth Regiment USCT created the Locust Hill Mission with the goal of restoring the constructing on the positioning and making it an interpretive middle/museum. In addition they need the headstones within the adjoining cemetery repaired and maintained.
