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TS | TS Beatrice Miller to get home N from her after-school job Ironically, the fact that Price moved his TE wife’s grave to prevent her dishonor has fu- N picking peppers at her fa- eled rumors that the rest of the bodies were O C Ither’s farm was to cut through the a lso relocated. Mayor Robb said at a February cemetery — when it was getting city commission meeting that her staff has dark. For the teenage girl, few proof that 18 bodies were moved, but when PULP | New Times requested copies of any documen- things were more frightening. tation, city spokesperson Rebecca Medina re- “I ran so fast my feet never touched sponded that she would not comment on any the ground,” chuckles Miller, now 78, sit- “open and active development applications.” | NEWS | | NEWS ting in front of her cheery, light-green In January 1986, Kassab considered Y home less than a mile from the old cem- buying the land and commissioned a study DA etery. “I was so scared I just ran as fast to determine whether it contained bod- as I could until I was out of there.” ies. Using digging tests and a high-tech Miller’s fear was based on community metal detector that should have discovered knowledge that the so-called Old Colored coffin nails and jewelry, Florida Atlantic Cemetery had been the final resting place for University archaeologists Yasar Iscan and African-Americans of her grandparents’ and Gerald Kennedy concluded there were no GE | NIGHT+ A great-grandparents’ generation. Although it human remains on the site. Believing he’d T S was already defunct and overgrown by the be able to develop it, Kassab purchased time she was a girl, wooden crosses and sim- the land through his trust for $238,000. ple headstones still In 2004, Kassab considered building a marked the graves. housing project and volunteered to partially “JUST LIKE Today the site — at pay for a new study to be conducted. He BLACK LIVES SE Fourth Street and and the city split the cost and hired Carr. SE Second Avenue Christopher Eck, then the Broward County MATTER, in Deerfield Beach preservation officer, who now works as a BLACK — is a grassy