Cemetery building burns down in McClain County

 
By James S. Tyree
Published: July 25, 2008

COLE — A building that marked the former black settlement of Jerusalem burned to the ground today, about a week before it was to host a reunion.

The building, which once housed a Baptist church, was next to the ghost town's cemetery on State Highway 74B, east of Cole in north-central McClain County . People with ties to the area planned to meet for a reunion on Aug. 2.

McClain County Detective Dan Huff s...


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