Monument of Midway Plantation Slave Cemetery
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Monument of Midway Plantation Slave Cemetery
Waymark Code: WMR72D
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2016
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Midway Plantation slave cemetery holds the remains of many of the African-American slaves who labored on the 1000 acre Midway 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 Plantation thrived and boasted of 600 acres of improved farmland and produce cash crops of corn and tobacco.
The height monument is approx. 12 feet. Erected in 1992.
Date Created/Placed: 1992
Address:
5150 Murray Lane
Brentwood, TN 37027
(the monument is across that address)
Height: 12
Illuminated: no
Website: [Web Link]
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