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Hillsborough County Sheriff's Deputy Alton Smith, left, and Deputy Andrew Lynch, members of the HCSO Underwater Recovery Team display a sign found in the lake during a search Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 at Bay Tree Farm in Odessa, Fla. Members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department Underwater Recovery Team and USF searched a lake, pond and property for Keystone Memorial Cemetery. (Chris Urso/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Divers pull markers from lake near forgotten black cemetery

By PAUL GUZZO and Tampa Bay Times - Associated Press

Researchers may have found lost graves under lake

By PAUL GUZZO - Associated Press

The Citrus Park Colored School, left, and Mount Pleasant AME Church, right, have ties to a cemetery that is on the property of neighboring Bay Tree Farm, which is right behind the tree line behind the buildings near Odessa, Fla. The cemetery was established by a freed slave in the early 1900s. By the mid-1900s, it had disappeared. (James Borchuck/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

On an Odessa farm, signs of a forgotten black cemetery

By PAUL GUZZO - Associated Press