Stafford Co. defers data center project on property with historic cemetery

Stafford Co. defers data center project on property with historic cemetery

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors has voted to pause a 99-acre data center project over concerns that it would be built over a historic cemetery that includes the graves of enslaved residents. The proposed Potomac Creek Development, which would be built along Eskimo Hill Road includes a cemetery, dating back to the 1700s. The site includes four headstone markers for white people who were buried there, and an adjacent area containing what …