Macedonia Enslave/Native Cemetery

Mar 2

Written By alanah cooper

Site Brief:

Founded: 1818

Location: Morven, GA

Additional name(s): Old Macedonia Cemetery Morven, Georgia

Affiliate group(s):

Macedonia Community Foundation, Inc

History:

The enslaved buried here are the early arrivals who were brought in to this region in early 1800’s. They forged the historic Coffee Road and maintained the largest plantations during the Civil War and are survivors of Mary Turner Lynchings of May 1918!

The Macedonia Enslave/Native Cemetery dates back to 1818 when settlers moved into the Wiregrass Territories now identified as Brooks, Lowndes, Thomas and other counties. Oral and physical history documents tombstones and burial crypts from that era up to the early 1930's. These enslaved are the ones who built the historic Coffee Road and maintained the huge plantations during the Civil War era. The Coffee Road was the main road of travel to Florida. The enslaved, Andrew Jackson I and Romeo Wilson I who eventually purchased this property owned a grist mill and established a way station here where The Federal Colored Troops Company G 103 Regiment encamped to protect the Freedmen after the Civil war. They are buried here together with at least 100 other enslaved family and friends.