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The cemetery is located on common ground in the Edgewater Subdivision. This small cemetery has been subject to serious vandalism for many years. 1977 and 1987 surveys found the gravestones in a pile near the center of the plot, and a hole dug into…

The Pearson School was the first school for African American children built in Burke around 1874. A second replacement school was built in 1898 on Burke Lake Road. By 1927, the school had 32 students, grades 1-6. From 1929 until 1946, the school had…

The history of the cemetery goes back to 1873 when Jeremiah Mannie Jackson (1816 – 1912) purchased 184 acres from Ansel and Mary Wheedon of Vermont in the Sideburn/Burke area. Jeremiah and his wife Martha farmed the land and had eleven children.…