Did you know there are two people buried under one of the runways at Savannah Hilton Head international Airport?
When the airport expanded a runway during World War II, it paved over a family burial site. The family’s descendants permitted the relocation of 96 out of the 100 graves.
The Dotson family was adamant about preserving the original burial spot for their matriarch and patriarch, convinced that their ancestors wouldn’t have desired to forsake the cultivated land they had worked on.
The graves of Richard and Catherine Dotson, the farmers who originally owned the land and died in 1884 and 1877, sit on the edges of runways 10 and 28, while two other graves are off to the side.