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.
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.
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…