Near Quinby in Florence County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery
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Clarke Cemetery
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, October 27, 2010
1. Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery Marker
Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery
This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation. Roseville, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family, was later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families from the 1820s through the Civil War. A 1200-acre plantation, it had more than 100 slaves living and planting cotton here by 1850.
Clarke Cemetery
This cemetery is sometimes called “the Clarke Cemetery” after the family that owned Roseville from Reconstruction until 1948. It is about 150 ft. square, and though it contains relatively few gravemarkers it includes at least 150 and as many as 250 or more graves. Slaves, freedmen, and their descendants were buried here for two hundred years, from the 1770s to the 1970s.
Erected 2004 by the Roseville Slave Cemetery Committee. (Marker Number 21-18.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era. A significant historical year for this entry is 1771.
Location. 34° 16.902′ N, 79° 42.156′ W. Marker is near Quinby, South Carolina, in Florence County. It is on North Williston Road (State Highway 327) 0.6 miles East Pocket Road, on the right
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Regionally, this marker is in South Carolina’s Pee Dee. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Roseville Plantation (approx. 0.3 miles away); Ney School / Back Swamp School (approx. one mile away); Christ Episcopal Church (approx. 2.8 miles away); Williamson's Bridge (approx. 4.9 miles away); William R. Johnson House / The Columns (approx. 4.9 miles away); Pleasant Grove Church (approx. 5.2 miles away); Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery (approx. 5.4 miles away); Lamuel Benton (approx. 5.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Quinby.
Another marker is no longer nearby. Major Robert Lide (was approx. 5.4 miles away but has been confirmed missing).
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, October 27, 2010
2. Clarke Cemetery Marker
Photographed by Paul Crumlish, May 7, 2011
3. Wide view of the Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery / Clarke Cemetery Marker
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, October 27, 2010
4. Cemetery Area
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on October 28, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 3,030 times since then and 126 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 28, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina. 3. submitted on May 10, 2011, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia. 4. submitted on October 28, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
