gail swanson uncovered information from a map from 1861 key west showing a notation called african cemeteryon its and she figured that had to relate to this story, which was already known in key west about the 1860 events, and so we decided to zero in on where that site might be and looked at it and said, ok, what is the best way to survey that area. we did not want to go in with shovels looking for graves and bones. we started with a ground penetrating radar survey in our area of interest. we brought in eight russia list to help us with that. surveyed our area. we started finding graves exactly where we thought they would be. that was in 2002. a wonderful discovery not only to have this rich presence, but have them here to remind us of these events and it's been wonderful. the community has been very supportive. there have been memorials built over that site and we have since done other surveys and found even more grapes -- graves in this area, the southern shore of key west. really a tremendous discovery of the site and a reminder not only of the transatlantic slave trade, but the poor pe