The Town of Hillsborough will unveil a monument preserving grave markers at Margaret Lane Cemetery, a black cemetery that dates back to before the Civil War. Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens and the Rev. Derric Gregory Sr. of Mt. Bright Baptist Church will preside at the ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The brick monument, designed and built by Sam Dunevant, preserves three headstones from unknown grave sites at the cemetery, which also is called the Old Slave Cemetery. Margaret Lane Cemetery is located on the south side of West Margaret Lane between South Occoneechee Street and South Hillsborough Avenue.