Orangeburg City Cemetery

Coordinates: 33°29′21″N 80°52′15″W / 33.489154°N 80.870756°W / 33.489154; -80.870756
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Orangeburg City Cemetery
MPS
Orangeburg MRA
NRHP reference No.96001025[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 27, 1996

Orangeburg City Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was established in 1889 and is a five-acre tract containing approximately 300 to 350 burial plots. Most burials date from about 1890 to the 1960s.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

Notable burials

  • West Point
    cadet who was expelled, exonerated, and posthumusly awarded a US Army officer commission

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ J. Tracy Power; Andrew Chandler & Geraldyne P. Zimmerman (November 1995). "Orangeburg City Cemetery" (pdf). South Carolina Inventory Form for Historic Districts and Individual Properties in a Multiple Property Submission. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  3. ^ "Orangeburg City Cemetery, Orangeburg County (Bull & Windsor Sts., Orangeburg)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

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