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Unnamed Cemetery, 62-4 Summary Report, page 4
Rock-strewn area at top of a tree-covered knoll, indicating a possible old cemetery site. This site is just west of the Redstone Airfield, on the south side of Hale Road.
Redstone Arsenal: Unnamed Cemetery Location _ 1. NW/4 of Section 25, T4S-R2W.
Could be the location of Hancock (Colored) Cemetery, per notation on map of Chapter 6, page 269, of Dorothy Scott Johnson's book CEMETERIES OF MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA VOL. I, 1971.
If the site is a cemetery, then it is expected that not more than half a dozen graves could be underneath the small grove of trees. Of course, there could well be more graves in the field, but there was no indication of other graves to be seen in 2002. The basis for examining this site as a cemetery is strictly from evidence on some older maps. However, the 1998 Southern Engineering map also shows the site as a cemetery:
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