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16 markers disturbed in historic Black North Carolina cemetery

Dixonville-Lincoln Memorial Task Force Chair Emily Perry said it was heartbreaking to see vandalism affecting a project she has worked on for 11 years.

SALISBURY, N.C. — Officials say more than a dozen gravestones were either broken or toppled in a historic Black cemetery in North Carolina where the oldest headstone is said to date back more than 170 years. 

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The Salisbury Post reports it's not clear when or why the Dixonville Cemetery was vandalized, but Dixonville-Lincoln Memorial Task Force Chair Emily Perry said it was heartbreaking to see vandalism affecting a project she has worked on for 11 years.

The vandalism was discovered as Perry and communications staff with the city of Salisbury drove to the cemetery on Wednesday to film videos for Black History Month.

A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay for repairs.

We are devastated to learn today, Wed., Feb. 2, that numerous headstones have been turned over and broken at the...

Posted by Dixonville-Lincoln Memorial Task Force on Wednesday, February 2, 2022

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