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Government Cemetery

Memorials	:	0
Location	:	Hopkins, Richland County, USA
Coordinate	:	33.8991486, -80.8568582
Description	:	Cemetery is located within the gates of the St. John Resurrection Memorial Garden. The cemetery was originally designated a government cemetery for Negro soldiers, veterans and their immediate family members. However, after 1940, a local farmer began using it as farmland and disposed of more than 30 grave markers by throwing them into the creek! The land was eventually purchased by C.W. Haynes & Company, who in 1997 donated 2 acres of the land to St. John Baptist Church. The church has restored the land to a cemetery and put the remaining markers into a small, fenced area as a... Read More	Cemetery is located within the gates of the St. John Resurrection Memorial Garden. The cemetery was originally designated a government cemetery for Negro soldiers, veterans and their immediate family members. However, after 1940, a local farmer began using it as farmland and disposed of more than 30 grave markers by throwing them into the creek! The land was eventually purchased by C.W. Haynes & Company, who in 1997 donated 2 acres of the land to St. John Baptist Church. The church has restored the land to a cemetery and put the remaining markers into a small, fenced area as a memorial to the original cemetery.

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Government Cemetery is located at off Ault Rd Hopkins, Richland County ,South Carolina ,USA.
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Latitude: 33.8991486
Longitude: -80.8568582

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