Jerusalem Church Cemetery has served as the primary burial site for the town of New Ebenezer and the congregation of Jerusalem Lutheran Church since at least the mid-1740s. An earlier burial ground dating from 1734 stood at Old Ebenezer near Ebenezer Creek close to present-day Highway 21. In 2011, archaeologists discovered numerous early graves, estimated in the hundreds, extending beyond the present-day brick fence. The finding raised questions because the fence, erected in the 1980s along the rough footprint of a much older fence, may not reflect the cemetery’s original boundaries. The older fence may have been placed inside the original limits after earlier fences were damaged during the American Revolution and Civil War, obscuring those boundaries. Another possibility is that the graves outside the fence were those of Revolutionary War dead buried separately, as many British, Hessian, and American troops were reported to have died at Ebenezer during the town’s various wartime occupations. The outer perimeter of the newly discovered burials has been marked with upright granite posts extending generally east and west. A large burial ground with numerous African-American graves has also been identified in the wooded area south of the fenced cemetery, and the perimeter of that section has likewise been marked by granite posts and a commemorative stone. The date of the first burial in that African-American section is unknown, but reports indicate continued use through the first half of the Twentieth Century. A reconsecration service was held for the burial ground outside the fence, including the African-American section.