Jonesville Cemetery Cleanup
Mr. Leon Tillman, Mount Sinai Baptist Church member, drags away overgrowth material during the Jonesville cemetery cleanup. The cleanup was organized by the Dobbins Human Resource Development Council and Top Three Association and included help from Marietta Mount Sinai Baptist Church members. The cemetery is located on Dobbins Air Reserve Base but was not part of the government property purchase in the early 1940s and is now the subject of extensive research to determine who owns the property. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Brad Fallin)
Jonesville Cemetery Cleanup II



by Public Affairs
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3/21/2011 - DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE -- Dobbins' Human Resource Development Council and Top Three Association put together a second phase of the cleanup of the Jonesville cemetery located on Dobbins ARB Saturday. Building on what was started in late February; volunteers from various base Air Reserve units and Marietta's Mount Sinai Baptist Church worked during two, four hour shifts to clear away very heavy brush and small trees overgrowing the grave sites in the cemetery. The cemetery is all that is left of the historic town of Jonesville, a late 1800's black community and suburb of Atlanta, which was acquired by the government in the 1940's to form what became Dobbins Air Reserve Base.