Johns Creek is reversing course on its stewardship of a historic cemetery where formerly enslaved people and their descendants are buried.

The city offered to transfer ownership of the property to a nonprofit descendant group to preserve and maintain the site, but in doing so declined to provide funding for those responsibilities.

Since Johns Creek acquired Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery in 2020, relatives say the grounds have fallen into deeper disrepair.

The two-acre property, set on a hill off Medlock Bridge Road, remains serene, but its condition tells another story: tree limbs are strewn across the grounds, some headstones have been overturned, and others are crumbling with age.

The city approved the purchase of the property through eminent domain and Fulton County in

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