What Lies Beneath: The Search For Unmarked Burial Grounds in Hillsborough County

The exhibit, What Lies Beneath, presents the results of a multi-year interdisciplinary investigation into unmarked burial grounds in Hillsborough County undertaken by Dr. Kimmerle and her Ph.D. candidate Kelsee Hentschel-Fey, along with GIS Manager Benjamin Mittler, and Dr. Lori Collins of the USF Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information.
Their re-discovery and identification of more than forty cemeteries and burial grounds previously lost to history were identified in the survey, are the subject for the exhibition that is now shared with the public. The exhibit offers a unique view into the history of the area told through the lens of its cemeteries, utilizing historic and modern photographs, archival documents and maps depicting the approximate locations of newly re-discovered burial grounds, and mixed media sculptures to help convey the story of the buried past.

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