Location Type
Other
Activity Level
(3/5)
Coordinates
35.595363, -82.550841
Description
South Asheville Colored Cemetery is where African Americans were buried for about a century, beginning in the 1840s. As few records were kept, it is uncertain how many people were buried here, but estimates guess from 1,500 to as many as 5,000. Witnesses here have reported dark, shadowy figures...