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