Virginia Department of Historic Resources Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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VLR Listing Date 12/14/2017
NRHP Listing Date 09/04/2018
NRHP Reference Number SG100002883
Founded around 1897 in the City of Alexandria as an unconstructed burial ground, Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery is important to the history of the “The Fort” community, a village formed by African Americans on the site of the dismantled Civil War-era Fort Ward. Today’s Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery consists of burials marked by commemorative markers as well as many unmarked graves identified by archaeologists. Oakland Baptist Church continues to own the cemetery, the only surviving privately-owned African American cemetery in Alexandria.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Updated: April 3, 2023
