Johns Creek reverses course on care of historic Black cemetery - SaportaReport

Johns Creek reverses course on care of historic Black cemetery - SaportaReport

Johns Creek is reversing course on its stewardship of a historic cemetery where formerly enslaved people and their descendants are buried.  The city offered to transfer ownership of the property to a nonprofit descendant group to preserve and maintain the site, but in doing so declined to provide funding for those responsibilities.  Since Johns Creek acquired Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery in 2020, relatives say the grounds have fal…