Brandon-on-the-Dan Cemetery
Alton, Halifax County, Virginia, USA
From the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: "In the woods to the west of the house is an extensive African American cemetery in which are at least 250 interments and perhaps as many as 400. The cemetery appears to have two sections: a south section used mostly in the nineteenth century, probably as early as the antebellum period and earlier, and a north section used later, up until the 1950s. Many graves are marked by unworked and uninscribed fieldstones; at least one grave has a fieldstone marker with carved initials; and two graves have professionally made tombstones... The cemetery landscape has reverted to woods although a few ornamental yuccas survive... The
farm's African American tenants and other blacks in the area continued to use the farm cemetery until the 1950s when a new cemetery was established at nearby Brandon Chapel."
From the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: "In the woods to the west of the house is an extensive African American cemetery in which are at least 250 interments and perhaps as many as 400. The cemetery appears to have two sections: a south section used mostly in the nineteenth century, probably as early as the antebellum period and earlier, and a north section used later, up until the 1950s. Many graves are marked by unworked and uninscribed fieldstones; at least one grave has a fieldstone marker with carved initials; and two graves have professionally made tombstones... The cemetery landscape has reverted to woods although a few ornamental yuccas survive... The
farm's African American tenants and other blacks in the area continued to use the farm cemetery until the 1950s when a new cemetery was established at nearby Brandon Chapel."
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- Added: 27 Sep 2022
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2761995
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