Orangeburg City Cemetery

Cemetery in South Carolina, US

United States historic place


Orangeburg City Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


33°29′21″N 80°52′15″W / 33.489154°N 80.870756°W / 33.489154; -80.870756
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1889 (1889)
MPS	Orangeburg MRA
NRHP reference No.	96001025^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 27, 1996

Orangeburg City Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was established in 1889 and is a five-acre tract containing approximately 300 to 350 burial plots. Most burials date from about 1890 to the 1960s.^[2]^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.^[1]

Notable burials

Johnson C. Whittaker (1858–1931), West Point cadet who was expelled, exonerated, and posthumously awarded a US Army officer commission

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ J. Tracy Power; Andrew Chandler & Geraldyne P. Zimmerman (November 1995). "Orangeburg City Cemetery" (pdf). South Carolina Inventory Form for Historic Districts and Individual Properties in a Multiple Property Submission. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
^ "Orangeburg City Cemetery, Orangeburg County (Bull & Windsor Sts., Orangeburg)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 4, 2014.