Abandoned Jewish cemetery in Douglas to get new life
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The abandoned Bisbee-Douglas Jewish Cemetery just 100 yards from the U.S.-Mexico border is more than 100 years old, and a group of volunteers wants to give it the facelift it needs. Johanna Willett / Arizona Daily Star 2016
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Has headstones and graves dating from early 1900s to 1960s.
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