Cemetery

Harris Hill Cemetery

In a wooded area between an office complex and the confluence of the Flat and Eno Rivers to the east of Red Mill Road, this began as a burial ground for African Americans enslaved on surrounding lands. Sometimes referred to as Harris or Harris Quarter Cemetery, the name appears to come from a family that owned over 300 acres in this vicinity prior...

Maplewood Cemetery

(Courtesy University of North Carolina Library, North Carolina Collection) Maplewood Cemetery was established in 1872 by the purchase of an empty field of land to the west of the city limits. William H. Willard was paid $1500 for the land. Prior to establishment of the cemetery, people had been buried in the churchyards of their particular church...

Cedar Hill Cemetery Aka Erwin Mills Cemetery

The Erwin Mills Cemetery, now the Cedar Mills Cemetery, was established by Erwin Mills in 1893 as a cemetery for employees who could not afford burial elsewhere.

New Bethel Memorial Gardens

Nearly half of the graves in this cemetery were moved here from the Crest St/Hickstown neighborhood during the construction of 147.

Barbee Cemetery

The Barbee Cemetery contains 20 graves of members of the Gray Barbee family, including Gray Barbee himself. Gray owned much of the surrounding land before East Durham was developed. The cemetery sits in an abandoned overgrown lot on Salem St.

Geer Cemetery

The story goes that the Geer Cemetery - at times also called City Cemetery, Old City Cemetery, East Durham and Mason Cemetery - originated with the 1876 burial of an 11 year old boy working on the farm of Jesse Geer; he had been accidentally killed by a horse, and his family requested that he be buried under a tree near where he was killed. Per Allen Dew's excellent Cemetery Census site: