Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery
African-American cemeteries in South CarolinaBaptist cemeteries in the United StatesCemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in South CarolinaNational Register of Historic Places in Greenville County, South Carolina
The Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery are a pair of historic cemeteries at 3540 Woodruff Road, southeast of Five Forks, South Carolina. The Kilgore Cemetery houses the remains of several generations of 19th-century plantation owners in the Kilgore family, while the Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery is an African-American burial ground established in 1868 by former slaves of the Kilgore plantation. The Kilgore Cemetery's funerary markers include several examples cut by W.T. White, a regionally prominent stone cutter.The cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
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Woodruff Road, Simpsonville
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Old Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church
Woodruff Road 3540
29681 Simpsonville
South Carolina, United States
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