Old City Cemetery

This cemetery was established on this site about 1900 as the Spartanburg Colored Cemetery and includes many graves moved from the city's first black cemetery, established in 1849 one mile west and closed because of the expansion of the Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad. Also known as the New Colored Cemetery until 1928 and later as Freeman's Cemetery, it has been known as the Old Cemetery since 1959. Those buried here include educator Mary Honor Farrow Wright (1862-1946), for whom Mary Wright School was named; midwife Phyllis Goings (1860-1945) and policeman Tobe Hartwell (d. 1932), for whom city public housing developments were named; city councilman Thomas Bomar (1864-1904); and educator Addie Wright McWhirter (1885-1976), the first woman to teach at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.

Spartanburg, South Carolina · United States