Hartsville Colored Cemetery

Marker #:

16-78

Title:

Hartsville Colored Cemetery

GPS:

N 34°21’51.79″  W 80°04’45.82″

Address:

500 Marion Ave. (DT)

Hartsville

Erected:

2017

 

Inscription

Front:

The cemetery was founded by two mutual aid associations representing Hartsville’s African American Community. The first acre was acquired in 1904 by the Hartsville Colored Cem. Association.  A second acre was acquired by the Mutual Cem. Association. The burials chronical former slaves and local residents including professionals and veterans who served from the Spanish American Wat to the Vietnam War.