Title	Free Hills Cemetery: Hill tombstone pieces
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2009
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	Free Hills Cemetery
Property type	Cemetery
Community Name	Free Hill, Clay County, TN
Description	Color photograph of the broken tombstone of [Graham] Hill, the bottom half of which is intact, and the top half of which lays on the ground. The lettering is mostly illegible. Death date appears to be 1900.
Historical Notes	The Free Hills Cemetery is the oldest historic resource in the Free Hill community that was established by the freed slaves of Virginia Hill in the early 19th century. The community in the Upper Cumberland Plateau became home to additional African Americans following the Civil War and later was anchored by a community school built 1929-30 with support of the Rosenwald fund.
Collection Name	Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH	African American cemeteries -- Tennessee Cemeteries -- Tennessee
Subject-TGM	Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Type	Still image
Genre	Photograph
Processing notes	Electronic file
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

Free Hills Cemetery: Hill tombstone pieces

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