Cherry Hill Black Cemetery

A colonial & early American cemetery for Blacks, free and slave, lies up to the rear of the church.

Marker is on Readington Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cherry Hill

Part of the city but green as a suburb, Cherry Hill is a distinctive African American planned community. Cherry Hill was established to provide housing for blacks who moved to Baltimore to work in industries during World War II. Originally ...

Cherry Hill Cemetery

An African American Burial Ground

Cherry Hill Cemetery is an African American burial ground established in 1884 by Josiah Adams. Before emancipation, Adams lived and worked as a free man at the Calvert Family’s plantation, Riversdale. Census records between 1840 and ...

Cherry Hill / Noble Cemetery

Cherry Hill

Three miles southwest is "Cherry Hill," site of the home of George McDuffie (1790-1851), orator of nullification, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, Major General of the State Militia, and Governor of South Carolina. ...

Cherry Hill

Greek revival house believed built in 1845 by Wm. Harvey, who bought 66.5 acres (part of 1729 248-acre Trammell grant). Outbuildings added about 1857. Name derived from trees lining lane from Leesburg Turnpike. In 1870, Joseph S. Riley bought the ...