Meadow Lane Cemetery
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Meadow Lane Cemetery

Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, USA

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    Coordinates: 37.64023, -84.79480
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Alternatively known as Locust Grove, Lebanon Road, Lebanon Pike, Fairview, or West Danville, this historically significant African-American cemetery is at the end of present-day Kilby Lane, off Cowan Street, West Danville.

It was probably begun as a slave cemetery in the 1830s or 1840s on land owned by Lawson Moore, whose plantation house was nearby (now a ruin to the east of US-127/150 Bypass west of Danville).

As of Sep 1991 it was completely overgrown, but several attempts have been made to clean and restore it, notably in 1992, 1994, 2011, and 2014 (Danville Advocate-Messenger, 28 Feb 2011).

Currently, work is under way again at preserving the cemetery permanently,





Alternatively known as Locust Grove, Lebanon Road, Lebanon Pike, Fairview, or West Danville, this historically significant African-American cemetery is at the end of present-day Kilby Lane, off Cowan Street, West Danville.

It was probably begun as a slave cemetery in the 1830s or 1840s on land owned by Lawson Moore, whose plantation house was nearby (now a ruin to the east of US-127/150 Bypass west of Danville).

As of Sep 1991 it was completely overgrown, but several attempts have been made to clean and restore it, notably in 1992, 1994, 2011, and 2014 (Danville Advocate-Messenger, 28 Feb 2011).

Currently, work is under way again at preserving the cemetery permanently,





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