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Paul Laurence Dunbar Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged african american history, dayton, epitaphs, occupation, ohio, poet, poetry, woodland cemetery, wordless wednesday on August 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Lincoln Cemetery/Memorial Park Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Cemeteries, tagged african american, african american history, carlisle, lincoln cemetery, park, pennsylvania, wordless wednesday on June 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Gettysburg’s Lincoln Cemetery
Posted in Cemeteries, tagged african american, african american history, civil war, gettysburg, history, lincoln cemetery, pennsylvania, soldier, united states colored troops, us history, veteran on May 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I’ll be writing more about this place as I have more time because I picked up a book with the history of the cemetery and a selection of its records, but I wanted to say a few things. Lincoln Cemetery is an African American cemetery in Gettysburg, founded in 1867 due to segregation. It’s a little off the beaten path in Gettysburg, sitting behind the medical center in a much less tourist-visited part of town. The cemetery holds the remains of many of the earliest black residents of Gettysburg (reinterred from another cemetery) and most of the local Civil War veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops.
Like so many sites in the historic town, the cemetery is graced with historical markers explaining its significance, but unfortunately the gates were closed when we went by. All of my photos were taken from outside of the fence.
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A Grave Concern by Ashley D. Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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