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Tucked behind Browns Chapel along Brown Chapel Road east of Sparta, this is a small, historically African American church burial ground. Beside its inscribed headstones lie numerous unmarked graves of adults and children, some indicated only by rough fieldstones, a hallmark of rural Black cemeteries from the period.
Browns Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery is a cemetery in Sparta, Hancock County. It is one of 140 cemeteries documented in Hancock County, among 163 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.2034, -82.9534 near Sparta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Barnes Family Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Knowles Chapel Cemetery, Lunsford - Wall - Sisson Family Cemetery, and Zebulon Methodist Church Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Tucked behind Browns Chapel along Brown Chapel Road east of Sparta, this is a small, historically African American church burial ground. Beside its inscribed headstones lie numerous unmarked graves of adults and children, some indicated only by rough fieldstones, a hallmark of rural Black cemeteries from the period.
Sources: findagrave.com
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