Mount Zion AME Zion Cemetery in Cullowhee, North Carolina

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Get directions Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 35.31083, -83.17279
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The Cullowhee AME Zion Church was founded in 1892 by 11 former slaves. The original location was on a half-acre of land sold to the church trustees for five dollars by congregation members Thomas and Lena Davis. In 1929, Western Carolina University purchased the site in order to build Robertson Dormitory on the site. The church was paid $3,200 for the land and an additional $1,000 for the congregants to relocate the church and 76 graves to their current location. Of the marked graves of the cemetery's current location, thirty-two of those buried died prior to relocation of the cemetery in 1929. There are roughly fifty graves marked only by fieldstone or blank markers.