Baptist Hill Cemetery

Baptist Hill Cemetery

Lee County, Auburn, Baptist, Cemetery, African American

Baptist Hill cemetery is a part of Alabama’s first separate black community and is a critical part of Auburn’s black history. According to oral history, a white man gave most of the land in the 1870’s. Currently the cemetery is four acres and has over 500 marked graves and many unmarked. The oldest grave dates back to 1879. Many of the buried at the cemetery were born into slavery but later became teachers or people in business. The cemetery gets its name from the Ebenezer Baptist Church close by.

Makayla Melvin

http://www.preservationnation.org/forum/african-american-historic-places/locations/southern/baptist-hill-cemetery.html

Makayla Melvin; MSM0041@auburn.edu