Locust Grove Cemetery - Shippensburg, PA - Pennsylvania Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Some information about this cemetery is available in a book published by students of a Shippensburg University professor titled “Black History of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1860 - 1936”. Copies are available from Shippensburg Historical Society. The book mentions that the earliest reference to the cemetery was made in a deed dated 1828.

Marker text is as follows:

Burial ground for slaves and free blacks since the early 19th century and site of Shippensburg's first African American church, established 1830s. Edward Shippen Burd granted the land to Shippensburg’s African American community in 1842. It was the only public cemetery open to African Americans in the area until the late 20th century. Graves of veterans from the Civil War to the Vietnam conflict include those of twenty-six Civil War soldiers.

Marker Name: Locust Grove Cemetery County: Cumberland Date Dedicated: 05/28/2007 Marker Type: Roadside Location: 100 block of N Queen St., Shippensburg Category: African American, Civil War, Military Website: [Web Link]

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