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Eastville retains its ethnic diversity, with some flight of African-Americans and influx of new residential homebuilders, a change that threatens the summer cottages built during the 1950s for a overbuilt esthetic of mega-mansions more suited for the economies of scale to match the Hamptons chic. In 2014 a historic marker was unveiled at the site of the cemetery, where students from the University of Minnesota used ground-penetrating radar and mapping to survey the cemetery on Eastville Avenue. The funds to conduct the surveys were awarded to the Eastville Community Historical Society (ECHS) by The
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