The Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery and Kilgore Family Cemetery are a pair of historic cemeteries at 3540 Woodruff Road, southeast of
Five Forks, South Carolina
Five Forks is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 17,737 at the 2020 census, up from 14,140 in 2010, and 8,064 in 2000. It is a growing, affluent suburb of Greenville and is part ...
. The Kilgore Cemetery houses the remains of several generations of 19th-century plantation owners in the Kilgore family, while the Old Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery is an African-American burial ground established in 1868 by former slaves of the Kilgore plantation. The Kilgore Cemetery's funerary markers include several examples cut by W.T. White, a regionally prominent stone cutter.
The cemeteries were added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
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African-American cemeteries in South Carolina
Baptist cemeteries in the United States
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Greenville County, South Carolina
Simpsonville, South Carolina