409 Brethren Road
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Last updated on March 29, 2024
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Directions from Moore Family Burial Ground to site 10:
- Continue west on Moores Mill Rd
- Turn left onto N Valley Pike (US-11)
- In 2.8 mile turn right onto Mayland Rd
- In 3.9 miles turn left onto Springbrook Rd
- Then turn left onto Brethren Rd
- In 700 feet turn left into the church parking lot
The Linville Creek Church of the Brethren is active in Broadway, Virginia. In 1830, a plot of land was donated for a meeting house. There are more than 200 marked graves, including a segregated area for African American burials. The area is to the right of the cemetery's main gate and is a 125-foot by 20-foot rectangle. There are only four marked gravestones: Alice Madden and John Madden, James Lewis, James G. Allen, and Docia Allen Nickens. Other African American burials in the section are unmarked. In 1920, a memorial was erected that reads: “In gratitude to the church fathers who dedicated this parcel of land for the burial of black people.” This African American burial ground dates back to the American Civil War and represents the first generation of freed African Americans in the American South. In the 1885 Lake’s Atlas map of Broadway, marked in the center of the map is the “United Brethren Col’d Church”.
