Kennedy: Hidden Stringer’s Ridge gulch might be home to 2,508 bodies

January 21, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.

by Mark Kennedy

Staff Photo by Mark Kennedy / Red Bank photographer Megan Ledbetter shows a black-and-white print Friday of a grave marker found in "The Field at Stringer's Ridge," a former Hamilton County pauper's graveyard that received bodies from 1890 to 1912.
Staff Photo by Mark Kennedy / Red Bank photographer Megan Ledbetter shows a black-and-white print Friday of a grave marker found in "The Field at Stringer's Ridge," a former Hamilton County pauper's graveyard that received bodies from 1890 to 1912.


It takes seven minutes for photographer Megan Ledbetter to walk from her parked car to a secluded cemetery in a gulch near Stringer's Ridge in Red Bank.

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