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Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery. -- The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a #Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state #regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites. “This is not as bad as it sounds,” a consultant wrote in2014 to Microsoft & to a county official. “We should be able to relocate these graves.” https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia