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Many area residents may remember the human remains found in 2008 during the construction of the new Rockbridge County courthouse.
Those remains of a young African-American woman from a historic, though unknown time, came to be called “Miss Jane,” and she was reburied in Evergreen Cemetery in 2019. Before her reburial, two loose teeth were saved for analysis, with one being sent to a lab in California.
Just this past December, a genetic report on the tooth was completed, and that report will be the focus of a public presentation at the Lylburn Downing Community Center on March 10 at 3 p.m.
Titled “Miss Jane’s Journey: New DNA Discoveries,” the event invites community members to learn about these new findings, as jointly presented by civic leaders, historians, and scientists from the city of Lexington, the Rockbridge Historical Society, Washington and Lee University’s Sociology and Anthropology Department, and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
A full story about the event and details about the findings in the report will be featured in next week’s paper.
