The African American Burial Ground, A. P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project was formed in the summer of 2020 following the recovery of unmarked graves in the cemetery.

The African American Burial Ground, A. P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project was formed in the summer of 2020 following the recovery of unmarked graves in the cemetery. By early 2021, ground penetrating radar (GPR) identified more than 500 unknown graves, believed to belong to African and African American enslaved persons, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, domestic laborers, convicted laborers, as well as wage workers and their families. As we learn more about who might be buried in these graves, the preservation project is also working to research, memorialize, and share the full history of Woodland Cemetery, which was established in 1924 for white employees of Clemson and their immediate families by the Clemson Board of Trustees at the behest of President Walter Riggs.