It’s a major cleanup project in a Tarrant County cemetery, helping unearth history. It is also assisting others with a better future for themselves by overcoming past mistakes.

The New Trinity Cemetery in Haltom City is filled with history. In the late 1800s, it was the only place African Americans could be buried.  It’s now the final resting place of over 450 veterans, Buffalo Soldiers, Tuskegee Airmen, and more.

Over the years, it has been neglected and overgrown until now.

“Through the efforts of the sheriff’s department, our count is up to 492 veterans because we find more when they clean it up,” American Legion Post 655 commander Chad Page said. “I have no doubt we’ll go over 500 before this is over.”

They are being assisted in the clean-up by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office l

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