ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Fulton County judge has ordered a Buckhead townhouse homeowner’s association to take care of a historic Black cemetery on its property.

Piney Grove Cemetery is home to more than 300 graves, some of which predate the Civil War. Last year, it was named on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Places in Peril list.

Resting behind The Bluffs at Lenox, the cemetery is overgrown and hard to access. In 2024, the advocacy group Friends of Piney Grove Cemetery, along with two descendants of people buried there, filed a lawsuit against the HOA, demanding it maintain the graves.

“Piney Grove Cemetery is a direct link to a time in Georgia when enslaved individuals were forced to toil in fields and homes,” the group said on its website. “(It) serves

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