Colored Asylum Cemetery
Also known as Slighs Avenue Cemetery , State Hospital Cemetery
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
The property is now owned by the City of Columbia and was developed into a golf driving range, the James Clyburn Golf Center, despite a South Carolina law making it a felony to desecrate grave sites.
The Chicora Foundation addresses this cemetery in their January 2001 research paper Dealing with Death: The Use and Loss of Cemeteries by the S.C. State Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. It is available on their website.
The property is now owned by the City of Columbia and was developed into a golf driving range, the James Clyburn Golf Center, despite a South Carolina law making it a felony to desecrate grave sites.
The Chicora Foundation addresses this cemetery in their January 2001 research paper Dealing with Death: The Use and Loss of Cemeteries by the S.C. State Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. It is available on their website.
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Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
- Total memorials81
- Percent photographed48%
- Percent with GPS0%
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
- Total memorials54
- Percent photographed83%
- Percent with GPS33%
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
- Total memorials7k+
- Percent photographed73%
- Percent with GPS18%
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed9%
- Percent with GPS1%
- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 71449
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