Colored Asylum Cemetery

Also known as Slighs Avenue Cemetery , State Hospital Cemetery

Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA

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Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 34.02441, -81.02205
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This cemetery was founded around 1910 for the burial of African-American ("Colored") patients of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and was located on the Asylum grounds. It was used until 1922.

The property is now owned by the City of Columbia and was developed into a golf driving range, the James Clyburn Golf Center, despite a South Carolina law making it a felony to desecrate grave sites.

The Chicora Foundation addresses this cemetery in their January 2001 research paper Dealing with Death: The Use and Loss of Cemeteries by the S.C. State Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. It is available on their website.

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