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Forrest City Cemetery; H. Hampton Springs Cemetery; ... Scott Cemetery (Walnut Ridge, Arkansas) This page was last edited on 22 October 2023, at 09:39 (UTC). ...
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.
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 ...
African-American cemeteries in Arkansas (11 P) C. ... Black Settlement Burial Ground; F. Freedmen's Cemetery; M. Morgan West Wheatland Cemetery; Mt. Union Cemetery; S.
Black cemeteries are scattered throughout the U.S., reflecting a deep past of cemetery segregation. Many Black Americans excluded from white-owned cemeteries built their own burial spaces. Their ...
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 ...
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)