Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
I’m back in the old New Hope community of Harris County, Georgia, standing in what remains of a place that once held an entire town together.
The New Hope Methodist Church is long gone, but its graveyard still tells the story of the families who lived, worked, worshipped, and were buried here. Joined by Mrs. Linda McCardle, we walk through the cemetery and talk about the people behind the names carved into stone.
This was once the heart of a rural Georgia community that slowly faded away, leaving the cemetery as one of the last physical reminders that it ever existed at all.
During our visit, historian Dan Akin joins us by phone to share his personal connection to one of the burials here.
This episode is part of an ongoing effort to document and preserve forgotten places like New Hope before they disappear entirely. These are more than cemeteries, they are records of lives that built the communities we stand in today and some that have faded from memory...
Preservation through documentation matters, because once the stories are lost, they are gone forever.
Plantation by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Artist: audionautix.com
I’m back in the old New Hope community of Harris County, Georgia, standing in what remains of a place that once held an entire town together.
The New Hope Methodist Church is long gone, but its graveyard still tells the story of the families who lived, worked, worshipped, and were buried here. Joined by Mrs. Linda McCardle, we walk through the cemetery and talk about the people behind the names carved into stone.
This was once the heart of a rural Georgia community that slowly faded away, leaving the cemetery as one of the last physical reminders that it ever existed at all.
During our visit, historian Dan Akin joins us by phone to share his personal connection to one of the burials here.
This episode is part of an ongoing effort to document and preserve forgotten places like New Hope before they disappear entirely. These are more than cemeteries, they are records of lives that built the communities we stand in today and some that have faded from memory...
Preservation through documentation matters, because once the stories are lost, they are gone forever.
Plantation by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Artist: audionautix.com
