Posts & Pages Tagged With: "St. Peter’s Cemetery"
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
KC-125: Founded in 1740, St. Peter’s was originally located near Duck Creek on the old King’s Highway. In 1762 the congregation moved to a newly constructed stone chapel on the site of St. Peter’s Cemetery. When the chapel fell into disrepair, the congregation built a church on Union Street in 1827. Stones from the old […]
Mount Olive Cemetery
NCC-87: In 1862 the members of Mother AUMP Church, also known as the Union Church of African Members, purchased property at the corner of Lancaster Avenue and Union Street in Wilmington for the purpose of establishing a cemetery. In 1914, the Church sold the property, then known as St. Peter’s Cemetery, for the construction of […]
