Forks of Cypress Cemetery
From Wikipedia Forks of Cypress Cemetery is a historic cemetery near Florence. The cemetery contains the graves of Forks of Cypress owner James Jackson, several member of his family, and numerous slaves who worked on the plantation. The slave cemetery is the resting place of over 250 of the plantation's workers, as well as many of their free decedents. The graves, mostly unmarked, represents one of the largest African-American cemeteries in the region. Author Alex Haley's great-grandmother, Ester, is buried in the cemetery.
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