Mercy Cemetery
Historic Property
Alternate Name:
[unknown]
Street Address:
block2000 Boundary St.;(Beaufort County)
Site Number:
025-646
Control Number:
U/13/025-646
Tax Number:
R120 001 000 0008 0000
Date Surveyed:
April 2 1997
Category:
Building
Construction Date:
circa 1910
Historic Use:
Funerary
Current Use:
Funerary
Signficant Architectural Features:
Small cemetery on flat, wooded site; several markers remain; iron fence surrounds Bampfield plot
Historical Information:
Hillary Barnwell has documented the following: "Gravestones in this traditionally African-American cemetery date back as far as the 1870s. The tract was originally sold to the trustees of the society called 'The Workers of Charity' in 1877. It is now cal
Source of Historical Information:
"African-American Places of Interest in Beaufort, South Carolina," c Hillary S. Barnwell, photocopy at Historic Beaufort Foundation.
Quadrangle Name:
Beaufort