Dozens of distraught families are demanding answers from Mount Zion Cemetery over the poor condition of their loved ones' gravesites. The cemetery on Hollins Ferry Road in Lansdowne is overgrown with ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — Days of rain are the suspected cause of a mudslide at the historic Mt. Zion Cemetery in Wheeling. Steve Novotney The slide has damaged more than 150 gravestones. Steve Novotney, of ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — It's been over a year since a mudslide impacted Mt. Zion Cemetery. And with state funding from the governor, restoration efforts are set to begin. A $2 million check from former ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — The Wheeling-based Mt. Zion Cemetery Corporation received a $2 million check from Gov. Jim Justice Thursday to help with repairs following a mudslide that damaged as many as 150 ...

Trash, twisted and shuffled headstones, and gravestones covered in grass are a common sight when Janea Dailey and her mom, Joy Octavia Bracy, come to Mt. Zion Cemetery in Lansdowne. It’s not what they ...

Tombstones carried away by a landslide at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Wheeling are shown here. An estimated 200 graves were impacted, though no caskets were unearthed. Charles Yocke, president of the ...

Most of the men in the black and white photo are gone now, but no one was thinking about exiting the world when the photo was taken. Not even Ernest Gaines, who is happy to be surrounded by them. The ...

A historically Black cemetery where formerly enslaved people are believed to be buried will be honored by Smyrna officials Sunday. Mount Zion Cemetery, in disrepair for years, was overgrown with grass ...

When it comes to United States history, not all sites are created equal. White Americans have a tendency to focus on the most flattering aspects of our history while pushing aside the things that ...