23A: New Hope Church
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Last updated on April 9, 2024
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Directions from the Blakey Farm to Site 23:
New Hope Church is a historic African American church and is still active today. The New Hope Church Cemetery is located less than a mile east from the church on at Dave Berry Road. In a 2001 survey, there were twenty-two identified graves in the cemetery.
Reference
Sue Propst, “New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery,” Rocking County Virginia Tombstones by Cemetery, Rocktown History, November 2001, accessed March 21, 2014, https://www.rocktownhistory.org/static-pages/cemeteries/cem/cem26.html. |