Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery
Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery | |
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| Location | 3540 Woodruff Rd., near Simpsonville, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°47′36″N 82°11′46″W / 34.79333°N 82.19611°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 100000688[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 28, 2017 |
The Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery are a pair of historic cemeteries at 3540 Woodruff Road, southeast of Five Forks, South Carolina. The Kilgore Cemetery houses the remains of several generations of 19th-century plantation owners in the Kilgore family, while the Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery is an African-American burial ground established in 1868 by former slaves of the Kilgore plantation. The Kilgore Cemetery's funerary markers include several examples cut by W.T. White, a regionally prominent stone cutter.[2]
The cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.[1]
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[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Historic Preservation News and Notes, April 2017" (PDF). South Carolina SHPO. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
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