{"id":195,"date":"2016-04-07T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/?p=195"},"modified":"2016-04-24T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:58:06","slug":"lincoln-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/lincoln-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial Park Home<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0History<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0Lincoln Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0From Cemetery to Park<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Railroad Station<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Community Voices<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0Cemeteries as Sites of Discrimination<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0Photo Gallery<\/a>\u00a0| \u00a0Historical Resources<\/a><\/p>\n

Lincoln Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Caly McCarthy<\/em><\/p>\n

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When the Penn Family founded Carlisle in the 18th century, they set aside one plot of land to serve as an African American burial ground, and one plot of land for a white cemetery. \u00a0The African American burial ground, later to become known as Lincoln Cemetery, was 300×100 ft and had poor drainage. \u00a0The white cemetery, referred to as The Old Cemetery, was 5 acres. \u00a0Carlisle Borough officials were tasked with maintaining both cemeteries. \u00a0They only kept up with The Old Cemetery.[1] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the 19th century, hundreds of African Americans were buried in Lincoln Cemetery. \u00a0Those buried include Carlisle residents (like Samuel A. Jordan, and Elizabeth Peck), and soldiers of the Union Army in the Civil War. \u00a0Most notable are members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first black soldiers allowed to fight in the United States Army. \u00a0There are also three soldiers from World War I, but Lincoln Cemetery largely stopped accepting burials in the early decades of the 20th century.[2] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: House Divided Project<\/p><\/div>\n

For more images of Lincoln Cemetery, visit the House Divided Project<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n[1] Joseph Cress, \u201cLocal Woman Saving Memories through Book,\u201d The Sentinel<\/em>, October 30, 2011. Accessed via “Lincoln Cemetery (Carlisle)” drop file, Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA 17013.<\/p>\n[2] \u201cLincoln Cemetery\u201d [Historical Marker], James Young Memorial Park, 149 W. Penn Street, Carlisle, PA 17013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorial Park Home\u00a0 | \u00a0History\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0Lincoln Cemetery\u00a0 | \u00a0From Cemetery to Park\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Railroad Station\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Community Voices\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0Cemeteries as Sites of Discrimination\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0Photo Gallery\u00a0| \u00a0Historical Resources Lincoln Cemetery by Caly McCarthy   When the Penn Family founded Carlisle in the 18th century, they set aside one plot of land to serve as an African American burial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}