Each year a group of Kernersville Rotarians gather to cleanup St. Paul’s AME Cemetery. St. Paul’s is an African Methodist Episcopal from over a century ago.
This graveyard was the burial ground for virtually the entire black population of the Kernersville community prior to the Civil War. After the Civil War several black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church established a new church to be known as St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church. St. Paul’s congregation purchased the Methodist Episcopal Church building and moved it to the site of this graveyard in 1873, becoming the first place of worship for the black community and the third established church in Kernersville. The church is no longer standing at this cemetery. (More details)
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