Program

Ohio History Connection

Subject

Cemetery

Location

2538 Co Rd 120, South Point, OH 45680, USA

Lat/Long

38.44164, -82.52449

Grant Recipient

Ohio History Connection

Historic Marker

MACEDONIA SETTLEMENT CEMETERY

 

Inscription

MACEDONIA SETTLEMENT CEMETERY

FRONT LINE OF FREEDOM

Macedonia Cemetery (circa 1840) belongs to Macedonia Church, Ohio’s first Black Church. Those buried include settlers of the Macedonia Free Black Settlement, built by free people who assisted freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad. Also interred are soldiers of the Civil War’s United States Colored Troops (USCT). most of whom served in the 5th Regiment, Ohio’s first Black Regiment (1863). The Polley family also rest here. Emancipated slaves, the family continued their freedom struggle when their children were kidnapped from Ohio and unlawfully sold into slavery. Macedonia’s extant burial grounds include this sacred site and another 1/2 mile north.

WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION
THE OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
2021