Greenwood Cemetery (Waco)
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| Greenwood Cemetery | |
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 Interactive map of Greenwood Cemetery | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1875 or earlier[1] |
| Location | 500 S. Price Street Waco, Texas, U.S. |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 31°34′19″N 97°06′42″W / 31.57190°N 97.11170°W |
| No. of interments | over 7,000 |
| Find a Grave | Greenwood Cemetery |
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Waco, Texas, United States. It was racially segregated for its entire history as a burial place, starting with its origins in the 1870s. It is one of the two oldest cemeteries in Waco along with Oakwood Cemetery. Because of the poverty of many people buried there, some of the graves were marked with wood or random objects rather than stone, or are unmarked. It contains a mass grave of 1918 influenza epidemic victims.[2]
Black burials in the cemetery are in a separate area from white burials. A quarter-mile-long fence once bisected the cemetery, separating the two areas.[3] The City of Waco removed the fence in June 2016, though by then the cemetery was no longer used for burials because of its unclear land ownership and many unmarked graves.[1][2]