The Byberry Township African American Burial Ground has no tombstones, grave markers, or signs of any kind. Title searchers have been unable to locate a dead to the property.
But Deborah Gary knows where the tiny cemetery was and still is.
“It’s disturbing to know it’s here,” she said, pausing at a weedy tangle of woods between Benjamin Rush State Park and the back of a National Archives facility in Northeast Philadelphia.
“After I saw it for the first time in April of last year, I let our group know this is something we should take on and try to