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Photos: Slave graves in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Researchers identified five slave grave sites near Mingus Mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Each grave faces west to east and is marked with a headstone and a footstone.
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A red flower is placed at the footstone of a grave that researchers suspect may belong to a teenager.
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A footstone of one grave meets the headstone of a second.
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Researchers think three of the largest grave sites are for adults.
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Researchers and park rangers work every Spring to clean up the grave sites.
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Researchers think the smallest grave site may belong to a child.
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It may look odd for people to be buried on a hillside, but the site is strategically placed so the graves would not wash away.
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Researchers have found five of the sites, but records indicate there could be a sixth grave that has not been located yet.
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The graves sit on this hillside, completely hidden from the popular Mingus Mill hiking trails, unless you know where to look.
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Researchers identified five slave grave sites near Mingus Mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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