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Native
American Cemetery
- Baum Site
Poplar Branch, NC
(All information provided by Darrell Merrell)
Directions: From US 158 southbound make a left onto Aydlett Road [SR 1140].
| IMAGE NUMBER | COMMENTS |
| 01 | Newspaper Article - The Daily Advance Sunday, September 2, 1973 [467 kb] - easy to read |
| 02 | Newspaper Article - The Daily Advance Sunday, September 2, 1973 [142 kb] |
| 03 | Newspaper photo of Milford Baum with three East Carolina anthropologists |
| 04 | Newspaper photo of Ricky Swain |
| 05 | Newspaper photo of Native American burial site |
| 06 | Native American skeleton |
| 07 | Native American skeleton |
| 08 | Native American skeleton |
| 09 | Darrell Merrell with Native American skeleton |
| 10 | Native American burial site |
| 11 | Milford Baum with three East Carolina anthropologists at Native American burial site |
| 12 | Native American burial site |
| 13 | Excavating Native American burial site |
| 14 | Milford Baum at Native American burial site |
| 15 | Native American skulls on bookshelf |
| 16 | Close-up of Native American skulls |
| 17 | Close-up of Native American skulls |
| 18 | Close-up of Native American skulls |
| --- | Final Report of Research on the Baum Site by David Sutton Phelps |
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© 2009 Kay Midgett Sheppard