Mt. Zion Cemetery, view of Female Union Band Society Graveyard, looking north, 1975

ID: 561

This file appears in: Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard): This cemetery is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the significant contributions of Black people to the development of Georgetown.

Credit: Wm. Edmund Barrett, NCPC

Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard): This cemetery is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the significant contributions of Black people to the development of Georgetown.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Mount Zion Cemetery's history and that of the generations of African Americans, both free and enslaved, interred therein highlight life and evolving free African American culture in the District of…