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Union Cemetery (Greensboro, North Carolina)

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MPS
  
Greensboro MPS

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
21 October 1993

NRHP Reference #
  
93001142

Year built
  
1882

Union Cemetery (Greensboro, North Carolina)

Location
  
900 blook S. Elm St., Greensboro, North Carolina

Union Cemetery, also known as South Elm Street Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The cemetery for African-Americans was established in 1882. Union retains 97 gravemarkers with death dates from 1882 to 1940. The majority of the markers date between 1901 and 1917, when the city of Greensboro closed the cemetery.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

References

Union Cemetery (Greensboro, North Carolina) Wikipedia