Numbered Markers

ID: 1173 ~ Source: Daniel Vivian ~ Creator: Daniel Vivian ~ Date: 2015

This file appears in: Freedomland Cemetery

Students at S. Ellen Jones Elementary School have installed small numbered stones to mark the location of unmarked graves. More than 350 burials have been identified.
Image courtesy of Daniel Vivian

This file appears in: Freedomland Cemetery

Freedomland Cemetery

By Alex Covington, Jacob Burress, Trish Nohalty & Tommy Skaggs

From the 1850s until the early twentieth century, Freedomland Cemetery served as the main burial ground for African Americans in New Albany. Originally called the “Colored People’s Burial Grounds” and the “Colored People’s Graveyard,” it lies in a…