Darlington Memorial Cemetery

Darlington Memorial Cemetery was established in 1890 on an original five-acre tract as the cemetery for the nearby Macedonia Baptist Church. The first African American cemetery in Darlington, it includes about 1,900 graves dating from the late 19th century to the present. In 1946, Bethel A.M.E. Church and St. James Methodist Church, both nearby, also established their own cemeteries here. Among the prominent people buried here are Rev. Isaac Brockenton (1829-1908), the founding pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church; Edmund H. Deas (1855-1915), a prominent Darlington County politician; and Lawrence Reese (1864-1915), a self-taught designer and master craftsman who designed and built several houses on West Broad Street. The cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Darlington, South Carolina · United States