A whistleblower says a plan to build a grain elevator on an old plantation would disrupt important historical sites,

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She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings. <[link removed]> A whistleblower says a plan to build a grain elevator on an old plantation would disrupt important historical sites, including possibly unmarked graves of enslaved people, and that her cultural resource management firm tried to bury her findings. by Seth Freed Wessler

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