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Pages in category "African-American cemeteries in Arkansas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Forrest City Cemetery, also known as City Colored Cemetery and Purifoy Cemetery, [1] is a historic Black burial ground in Forrest City, Arkansas, United States. [2] It is thought that this burial ground was founded around c. 1880 , by members of the Spring Creek Baptist Church. [ 2 ]
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This list of cemeteries in Arkansas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Black Oak Cemetery is a historic cemetery in a remote area of Washington County, Arkansas, southwest of Greenland. It is located on a knob of land at the southern end of a north–south ridge east of Miller Mountain, and is best accessed via spur road running northward from Illinois Chapel Road (County Road 20) west of Arkansas Highway 265 ...
Maple Hill Cemetery (Helena-West Helena, Arkansas) Martin Cemetery; McCraw Cemetery; Mike Meyer Disfarmer Gravesite; Mills Cemetery; Moscow Methodist Church and Cemetery; Mound Cemetery (Arkansas City, Arkansas) Mounds Cemetery; Mount Holly Cemetery; Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery; Mount Zion Cemetery (Walnut Ridge, Arkansas)
Hampton Springs Cemetery is a cemetery in rural Dallas County, Arkansas, at the junction of county roads 425 and 427, near the city of Carthage.The cemetery is divided into two sections, one in which traditional European grave markers predominate, and another section in which graves are marked by a local adaptation of African burial customs.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. [1] The Colony was established in the years after the American Civil War, when Arkansas experienced an influx of former slaves migrating from states in the Deep South in search of better land and working opportunities. The core of the settlement appears to have been at ...