Mount Olive Cemetery is a historic burial ground for African Americans in

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. It was listed on the

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in 2017.Registration form
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History

The earliest burial in Mount Olive Cemetery was in 1807. Mount Olive served the African American community of Jackson, with the majority of burials occurring between 1900 and 1965. The cemetery has experienced years of neglect and some of the headstones have deteriorated as a result of this neglect. Since 2015, researchers from the adjacent

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have worked to document and restore the cemetery's history.

Burials

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