Scott City Cemetery
Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
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West out of Leeds on Hwy 78 opposite side of the road for the turn off for Cahaba Hills, turn right onto the gravel road. This is the oldest all black cemetery in Leeds. The burials begin across the street from the church and then continue up the hill. At one time there was a wagon road from the church to the top of the hill.
The Church- At Scott City; turn right onto Coosa Ave at the base of the hill, approx. ¼ mile up Coosa St the church (Mt. Pleasant Church) sits on the left.
State of preservation: The latest gravestones that are dated indicate that most burials here ceased about 1965. The earliest burial is supposed to date from 1831. Many of the headstones are homemade and have deteriorated to the point of being unreadable and many have been knocked down or are gone. As a guess, approximately 1 in 20 (or less) of the graves are currently marked. The cemetery has been entirely overgrown and burned over twice. The cemetery has been cleaned and many of the sunken graves were filled in with a backhoe.
Size: there are possibly 800 to 1,000 graves in this cemetery
West out of Leeds on Hwy 78 opposite side of the road for the turn off for Cahaba Hills, turn right onto the gravel road. This is the oldest all black cemetery in Leeds. The burials begin across the street from the church and then continue up the hill. At one time there was a wagon road from the church to the top of the hill.
The Church- At Scott City; turn right onto Coosa Ave at the base of the hill, approx. ¼ mile up Coosa St the church (Mt. Pleasant Church) sits on the left.
State of preservation: The latest gravestones that are dated indicate that most burials here ceased about 1965. The earliest burial is supposed to date from 1831. Many of the headstones are homemade and have deteriorated to the point of being unreadable and many have been knocked down or are gone. As a guess, approximately 1 in 20 (or less) of the graves are currently marked. The cemetery has been entirely overgrown and burned over twice. The cemetery has been cleaned and many of the sunken graves were filled in with a backhoe.
Size: there are possibly 800 to 1,000 graves in this cemetery
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Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials1
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS100%
Scott City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials52
- Percent photographed0%
- Percent with GPS0%
Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials586
- Percent photographed74%
- Percent with GPS2%
Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials2
- Percent photographed0%
- Added: 3 Jan 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2383150
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