The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery is a cemetery on St. Marys Street in

Lake Village, Arkansas Lake Village is a city in and the county seat of Chicot County, Arkansas, Chicot County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,575 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is located in the Arkansas Delta. Lake Village is name ...

. The cemetery is located adjacent to a modern church that is located on the site of churches that have served Lake Village's African American population since 1860. The historic portion of the cemetery, east and south of the church, was added to the

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in 1992. It is the only known site associated with the area's large African American population from the 19th century.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Chicot County, Arkansas Lake Village, Arkansas 1860 establishments in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1860 African-American cemeteries in Arkansas Baptist cemeteries in the United States Baptist Christianity in Arkansas Cemeteries established in the 1860s