Graves

Many of the African Americans who fled to Alexandria to escape enslavement, along with others already living there, died from disease and deprivation during and shortly after the Civil War. Carts bearing the dead entered the cemetery along a path at this location. Stones mark the locations of more than 540 graves identified by archaeologists and now protected by the memorial. Historic records indicate that the cemetery once held nearly 1,200 additional graves, many of which were destroyed by buildings and roads. More than half of the people buried there were children under the age of sixteen.

Alexandria, Virginia · United States