The newspaper article that documented Henrietta’s address was Jacques Kelly, “Her Cells
Made Her Immortal,” Baltimore Sun, March 18, 1997. The article by Michael Rogers was “The
Double-Edged Helix,” Rolling Stone (March 25, 1976).
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For reports of the decline of Clover, see, for example, “South Boston, Halifax County, Vir-
ginia,” an Economic Study by Virginia Electric and Power Company; “Town Begins to Move
Ahead,” Gazette-Virginian (May 23, 1974); “Town Wants to Disappear,” Washington Times
(May 15, 1988); and “Supes Decision Could End Clover’s Township,” Gazette-Virginian (May
18, 1998); “Historical Monograph: Black Walnut Plantation Rural Historic District, Halifax
County, Virginia,” Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (April 1996). Population figures are
available at census.gov.
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