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There are hundreds of historic African-American graveyards in the two counties. Locate specific cemeteries here. |
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irginia contains thousands of family burial grounds and consecrated cemeteries. These final resting places preserve invaluable biographical information about the past residents of the county. The AACAAC Project is dedicated to locating, documenting, and preserving historic African-American cemeteries in two counties.
Enslaved populations often held their funerals at midnight because it symbolized the passage to another place.
Learn more about:
The Flannagan Family Cemetery
(posted 9 August 2008 - in Albemarle)
Mr. Burkley Bullock
"He organized the Old Ivy Creek Baptist Church, which is now Union Ridge Baptist Church in the county...."
