Center Street, which divides the Palm Groves cemetery into two halves with each on Gurley and Lynch Streets, has always hosted the largest number of family members paying homage to the dead. But that was not the case on March 11, 2020, at the Palm Grove Cemetery – Liberia’s oldest gravesite in the heart of Monrovia – due to the deplorable condition of the graves. The Palm Groves Cemetery dates back as far as the 1820s. I know that it will take some time, but we will have to relocate this cemetery,” Flomo said. Madam Taylor wrote the Plenary of the Senate requesting the body to put halt to the ongoing demolition of the Palm Groves cemetery.

Source: Front Page Africa March 13, 2020 05:15 UTC