Midway Plantation Slave Cemetery - Williamson County Historical Society
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Williamson County Historical Society - Midway Plantation Slave Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM8TN
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2006
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Midway Plantation Slave Cemetery
A short distance east of this marker is the site of the Midway Plantation slave cemetery, which holds the remains of many of the African-Americans who labored on the 1000 acre plantation in the bonds of slavery during the mid-nineteenth century. By 1850, some 38 slaves toiled on the plantation, and through their efforts Lysander McGavock’s Midway, thrived and boasted of 600 acres of improved farmland and produce cash crops of corn and tobacco.
Williamson County Historical Society
Marker reads the same on both sides.