Forest Home Cemetery

Forest Home Cemetery evolved from an old slave burial ground and is the final resting place of Eliza Curtis Hundley Tevis, who lived circa 1802-84, and other early settlers of the Petersburg community. Born enslaved, Tevis gained freedom in 1833. She and her husband Henry purchased 40 acres in 1851 in Wet Woods, where she had lived for many years. Tevis was a significant African American landowner in antebellum Jefferson County. After the Civil War, the Tevis property and 40 adjacent acres purchased by Peter Laws were subdivided by 1880 to form the rural African American community of Petersburg. Located near the site of the Tevis home, Forest Home Cemetery is one of the oldest dedicated African American burial grounds in Kentucky.

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky · United States