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Wyoming Youth Services Bureau has partnered with Carl B. Westmoreland, Adriana Leigh, and Janet Johnson of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to offer "History in the Making", where students will work on a soon to be nationally known project  preserving the history of the African American Beech Grove Cemetery and the only standing slave house in Ohio!

This is the cemetery on Fleming Road at the border of Wyoming and Finneytown. We will be the first youth to help spring board this project documenting who is buried where, researching each person and finding any living relatives. This project is important in preserving the identity and history of local African American families and their heritage. Richard Cammack who came to Wyoming right out of slavery used his pent up energy and became a millionaire who built this cemetery and started a savings and loan which helped black families purchase homes here and in the neighboring communities.  We believe the house at the cemetery is an replication of slave houses and may be the only one still standing in Ohio. This is an important project that we simply can not ignore! 

We are looking for more volunteers or any living relatives to provide us with biographies of those who are buried here. If you are interested in helping us, please contact Adriana Leigh at adriana1839@gmail.com 

Thanks!

Angie Reichert-Hester, MA, ATR

Service Learning Coordinator 

Wyoming Youth Services Bureau 

(513) 821-2428 ext. 1022 

www.wyomingyouthservices.om