Families and religious leaders in Silver Spring, Maryland, believe the remains of dozens of people are likely buried beneath the parking lot of a shopping center.

The Seminary Place Shopping Center on Georgia Avenue is now home to an Aldi grocery store, a closed-down car wash and other shops. But from 1825 to 1963, dozens of people, including some formerly enslaved families, were buried there near a church.

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Rev. Will Ed Green of Silver Spring United Methodist Church said the remains of only six people were officially moved when the property of the Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal Church cemetery was sold in 1964.

Green and other church leaders believe at least 38 people's graves were never relocated.

Church leaders read t

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