Paulling Place Cemetery was an African American cemetery on the plantation of William K. Paulling, established in 1836, and oral histories from the surrounding African American community indicate that it has been in continuous use since the days of slavery. After neighboring St. John's Baptist Church was established in 1867, it became that church's cemetery. At least 175 unmarked graves, identifiable only by depressions in the ground, are there, and surnames of those interred include Bell, Harris, Johnson, Nelson, Robinson, Staten, Witherspoon, and Wright. Adjacent to it is the Ernest Everett Hale family cemetery. Hale came to Marengo County in 1925 as County Extension Agent and aspired to own a Canebrake plantation. He returned in 1951 to purchase Paulling Place, and he and other family members are buried in the adjacent cemetery, which is maintained, like the plantation, by his descendants.