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African Union Church Cemetery

  NCC-229. Originally Installed in 2017 In 1835 five trustees of the African Union Church purchased this half acre of land for $80, thereby establishing a church, now razed, and cemetery. Throughout its active years, the church and cemetery served the residents of Polktown, one of the state’s earliest free black settlements. Among the marked burials […]