Just inside Atlanta’s northern I-285 perimeter sits an untouched cemetery — larger than the city’s Oakland Cemetery, and home to thousands of graves lost to time.

The expansive 70-acre property is almost entirely invisible from outside the tree line of the forest that encompasses it. Its headstones and plaques are chipped away, buried in overgrowth and tangled in vines, making it nearly impossible to traverse and even harder to pinpoint the history that’s been abandoned there for decades.

Now, the couple who inherited the abandoned site in 2023 are working alongside environmental nonprofits to save both the cemetery’s history and its second-growth forest covered by invasive vines.

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