CEMETERIES
Armstrong Slave Cemetery / Pine Hill
Mt. Pleasant Pike, Ashwood
This small cemetery dates from circa 1830. Approximately 25 graves are located in this roughly rectangular lot. Most graves are marked only by fieldstone, but a number have cut stones marked only with first names, and sometimes dates. This cemetery is the only surviving resource associated with the Black slave population that toiled on Samuel Henry Armstrong’s plantation
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Campground Cemetery
Cemetery Road, Culleoka
A road down the middle of the cemetery separates the Black and white sections. It includes the graves of African American Civil War veterans.
Canaan Cemetery
The cemetery is adjacent to the Canaan AME Church, which was founded by former slaves of the Zion community.
Clifton Place
Mt. Pleasant Pike, Ashwood
West of the gates to the farm is a small circa 1860 cemetery, abandoned for more than a century. Likely a slave cemetery for the plantation, the few recognizable graves are marked only by broken fieldstones.
Flint Valley United Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
1987 Nashville Highway, Columbia
Eli Gant founded the church in 1875. Four graves are individuals born before the Civil War
Friendship Cemetery / Calvary Cemetery
1239 Witherspoon Road, Columbia
Located behind the site of the former church on Witherspoon Road in the Godwin community. With burials dating back to the 1900s, it is the final resting place of World War I, World War II, and Vietnam War veterans.
Frierson Cemetery
2893 Hampshire Pike, Cross Bridges
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Greenwood Cemetery
This cemetery was established in 1809. Free Black citizens were allowed burial in a segregated section. On occasion, white families would buy plots in the segregated section for the burial of well-thought-of employees, some of whom were slaves.
Hunter Cemetery
7643 Highway 166, Mt. Pleasant
This cemetery was established in 1811. Hundreds of enslaved people are buried in unmarked graves in a section of the cemetery near the road.
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery
3396 Les Chappell Rd, Spring Hill
Established 1871
Pillow Place / Rose Hill
Pillow Drive, Columbia
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Pillow Bethel House
Campbellsville Pike, Columbia
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Rattle and Snap
Mt. Pleasant Pike, Ashwood
Rippavilla Plantation, Spring Hill
Rosemount Cemetery
Established 1873
William “Cap” Jordan, one of the founders of Rosemount Cemetery, also founded the first Black school in Maury County. When Columbia was first occupied by federal troops he secured permission to establish the school, but when Confederate troops later occupied the town, the school was closed. Jordan was arrested and received 26 lashes of the whip.
Rosemount is the final resting place for:
Dr. J.C. Halfacre, physician, alderman from Columbia’s Third Ward, possibly the earliest African American to serve in Columbia’s city government.
Isaiah Gholston, a minister who constructed the Gholston Methodist Church (now Bethel AME Church) on the corner of Glade and Helm Street.
Edmund Kelley, a founder of Mt. Lebanon Church and after emancipation one of the leading figures in the cause of African American education in Maury County.
Members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT).
History of Rosemount Cemetery
Rosemount Cemetery Burials List
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Salem Church Cemetery
6947 Old Zion Road, Mt. Pleasant
Before the Civil War, slaves were compelled to attend the church of the master. After the war ended, Black members of the Zion Presbyterian Church asked church leaders for permission to form their own church, Salam Presbyterian, just around the corner from the main church. Formed in 1872, this was the predecessor to Canaan. The church is gone, but brush hiding the old cemetery has been cleared away.
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Salem Church Markers
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Mt. Pleasant Pike, Ashwood
A slave cemetery in the back.
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Thompson Cemetery
Kedron Road, Spring Hill
Zion Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant
The slave cemetery is to the right side of the church property and includes a memorial marker to a slave hero of the revolutionary war.