Old City Cemetery - Union Springs, AL
N 32° 08.620 W 085° 43.011
16S E 621015 N 3557081
Locally known as the Confederate Cemetery, the Old City Cemetery includes the tombstones of some twenty-two Confederate soldiers.
Waymark Code: WMFWWF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2012
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The Old City Cemetery is located on Blackmon Street (US Hwy 82) behind the Trinity Episcopal Church/Red Door Theater. The only sign for the cemetery is a historical marker. The cemetery contains 52 graves with named headstones and several marked "Unknown".
Historical Marker Text:
Micajah Norfleet Eley donated land in 1849 for the Baptist Church and an adjoining public cemetery. The oldest cemetery in Union Springs, it served the city for 35 years. The Confederate Monument at the center of the cemetery was unveiled at the intersection of Prairie and Hardaway Streets on March 29, 1895 by the Ladies Memorial Association. In 1973 it was moved to its present location.
Locally known as the Confederate Cemetery, it includes the tombstones of some twenty-two Confederate soldiers. Below the Confederate soldiers’ grave site is a marker which reads, “Union Prisoners of War, 1861 – 1865, Victims of Plague.”
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