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St. Mary's Cemetery

Rotary Club of Pflugerville leads effort to replace markers in historic Black cemetery

By Carson Ganong

The Rotary Club of Pflugerville is undertaking a project to locate and place markers on unmarked graves in St. Mary's Cemetery.

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