Locust Grove Cemetery - Shippensburg, PA
Posted by: Ernmark
N 40° 03.384 W 077° 30.895
18T E 285492 N 4437047
Marker noting the site of Shippensburg's first African American church & cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM3DMW
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2008
Views: 20
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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