Mt. Zion Cemetery, tombstones removed from Methodist Episcopal Burying Ground to permit grading, stacked in bed of Old Lyons Mill Road at southwest corner of cemetery.
This file appears in: Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard)
Credit: Wm. Edmund Barrett, NCPC
This file appears in: Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard)
Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard)
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 Columbia from the earliest days of the city.…