Mount Frisby African Methodist Episcopal Burial Ground
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Mount Frisby African Methodist Episcopal Burial Ground

Union Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions Geigertown Road
    Union Township, Pennsylvania 19508 United States
    Coordinates: 40.22601, -75.80475
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The African Methodist Episcopal Mount Frisby Church graveyard along Geigertown Road in Union Township still contains 19th-century markers of black church members.

For more than 100 years, Hopewell workers, some of them slaves in the early years, turned the raw ingredients of iron ore, limestone and charcoal into molten metal.

When Hopewell was established in 1771, original owner Mark Bird was the largest slaveholder in Berks and Chester counties. But in 1790, Pennsylvania law called for the gradual emancipation of slaves.

In the 1830s, descendants of some of Hopewell's early slaves established a community called Six Penny Creek in Union Township and - with the help of Quaker abolitionists helped ferry slaves to freedom.

One of those freed slaves, Isaac Cole, became a landowner, with more than 100 acres and several homes.
On Cole's land in the 1850s, he and others founded the African Methodist Episcopal Mount Frisby Church, which still stands on Geigertown Road.

This was one stopping point in Berks used by fleeing slaves as they tried to make their way to Canada.

Many thanks to Ann Wagner for suggestion to add this cemetery to findagrave.















The African Methodist Episcopal Mount Frisby Church graveyard along Geigertown Road in Union Township still contains 19th-century markers of black church members.

For more than 100 years, Hopewell workers, some of them slaves in the early years, turned the raw ingredients of iron ore, limestone and charcoal into molten metal.

When Hopewell was established in 1771, original owner Mark Bird was the largest slaveholder in Berks and Chester counties. But in 1790, Pennsylvania law called for the gradual emancipation of slaves.

In the 1830s, descendants of some of Hopewell's early slaves established a community called Six Penny Creek in Union Township and - with the help of Quaker abolitionists helped ferry slaves to freedom.

One of those freed slaves, Isaac Cole, became a landowner, with more than 100 acres and several homes.
On Cole's land in the 1850s, he and others founded the African Methodist Episcopal Mount Frisby Church, which still stands on Geigertown Road.

This was one stopping point in Berks used by fleeing slaves as they tried to make their way to Canada.

Many thanks to Ann Wagner for suggestion to add this cemetery to findagrave.















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