1. African-American Sections (A & B)
Sections A and B, also known as the African-American sections of the cemetery, contain a mixture of fieldstones, headstones, tablets and family markers set in plots or placed in loosely organized rows.
There were no black church cemeteries in Chapel Hill in the 18th and early 19th centuries; consequently, the slaves of the village were buried in a segregated section of the cemetery, separated from the other sections by a low rock wall, which still stands. The earliest inscribed stone in Section B has a death date of 1853, but it was probably in use before this. Section A came into general use by Chapel Hill’s African-Americans in the mid-1880s.
Source: National Register Application Continue to Uninscribed Fieldstones
