A black burial ground joins register of national historic landmarks
The principle burial ground for African-Americans in the City of Aiken was recently placed on the National Historic Register as Aiken Colored Cemetery...
The official name is now Pine Lawn Cemetery located on Florence Street and serves as the resting ground of slaves, prominent leaders, educators, doctors and ministers...
The cemetery was founded in 1852 with originally four acres of land that the City of Aiken purchased and later gave to five colored churches in the area, Friendship Baptist Church, Second Baptist Church, Wesley United Methodist, Cumberland A.M.E. Church and Emanuel Presbyterian Church
[Cemetery board member Colleen] Reed said there are a lot of veterans buried there from the Spanish American War, World War I and II, Korean War, Vietnam War and possibly the Civil War...
With 9.5 acres, the cemetery is still being used today. The group in currently in the process of documenting the cemetery to find all persons that are buried there.
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The official name is now Pine Lawn Cemetery located on Florence Street and serves as the resting ground of slaves, prominent leaders, educators, doctors and ministers...
The cemetery was founded in 1852 with originally four acres of land that the City of Aiken purchased and later gave to five colored churches in the area, Friendship Baptist Church, Second Baptist Church, Wesley United Methodist, Cumberland A.M.E. Church and Emanuel Presbyterian Church
[Cemetery board member Colleen] Reed said there are a lot of veterans buried there from the Spanish American War, World War I and II, Korean War, Vietnam War and possibly the Civil War...
With 9.5 acres, the cemetery is still being used today. The group in currently in the process of documenting the cemetery to find all persons that are buried there.