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Scott Cemetery (Walnut Ridge, Arkansas) This page was last edited on 22 October 2023, at 09:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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]
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 ...
Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of segregated cemeteries across the country where African Americans – from former slaves to prominent politicians and ...
The Bean Cemetery is a historic African American cemetery in Lincoln, Arkansas.It is located on the east side of the city, on the north side of United States Route 62 just west of Meade Avenue, north of a small roadside picnic area that was once part of the property.
Remains of Black residents left behind in city's first cemetery By the mid-1800 the four cemeteries could no longer accommodate the growing city. When Crown Hill Cemetery opened in 1863, city ...
The cemetery is the final resting place for men who escaped slavery to fight in the Union Army in the Civil War, Buffalo soldiers from the Spanish-American war and matriarchs of the Black families ...