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We made it to the front page of Metro section today (Sunday) !

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In today's online Washington Post. In newspaper Sunday! 4/12

We are back in the news!

Descendants renew fight to save historic Black cemeteries in D.C. For more than six decades, descendants and a handful of supporters have fought to preserve Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society cemeteries in what was once known as Black Georgetown.

I often say this place is an outdoor library.
Each headstone is a book. Each name a story.

But sometimes the soil gives us another kind of page.

This 19th-century bottle was made from sand, lime, and soda ash — melted at high heat and blown by hand. The blue-green color isn’t decorative. Iron in the sand gave early glass that aqua tone before modern refining made glass fully clear.

The cloudy shimmer on the surface? That’s patina.

After decades underground, moisture slowly pulls minerals from the glass. The surface breaks down microscopically, forming a thin altered layer that catches light differently.

Time leaves its mark.

Even when disturbed, the earth remembers.

The first imported bottles of came from England in 1839.

What a find in the historic Mt Zion-FUBS cemeteries!

It has been widely documented that people left lots of things and sorts on the graves of loved ones. A common tradition in historic African American cemeteries. This 19th century patina colored bottle could have been used as a vase or maybe the ancestor was a good cook and loved the sauce. :)

I could tell it was a patina bottle but what did these letters say? I took it home and put it up to the light to make it out.

The raised letters around the shoulders of the bottle says "Worcestershire Sauce" and down one side it says "Lea & Perrins". We know oysters were a staple food and Worcestershire Sauce was often paired with them. Our cemeteries are full of oyster shells.

can you confirm date and tell us more? We are DCs oldest Black cemeteries located in Georgetown, Washington, DC