River Road Moses Cemetery (Bethesda, Maryland)
The River Road Moses Cemetery (also recorded as Moses African Cemetery, White's Tabernacle #39 Cemetery, Friendship Moses Cemetery, and Macedonia Baptist Cemetery) is a historic African-American burial ground in the Westbard area of Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Established as the cemetery of a Black mutual-aid lodge of the Ancient United Order of the Sons and Daughters, Brothers and Sisters of Moses, and serving the River Road freedom colony, the cemetery holds an estimated 200 or more burials, including an African-American Civil War veteran; the site now lies beneath the asphalt parking lot of the Westwood Tower apartment complex. Since the mid-2010s the cemetery has been the focus of one of the most prominent African-American burial-ground preservation disputes in the United States, generating sustained protest, county-commissioned investigations, and litigation that reached the Supreme Court of Maryland, which held in 2024 that the site "was a historic Black burial place" in which human remains likely remain interred, and that Maryland's common law protects burial places.
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Westbard Avenue, Bethesda
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| Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|
| N 38.96459 ° | E -77.10587 ° |
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Westwood Tower
Westbard Avenue 5401
20816 Bethesda
Maryland, United States
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