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Photos taken by Hank and Barbara Engel.

Hank and Barbara Engel sent me the following information about the Old Burying Ground:

The Old Burying Ground was established 1709, and it is located at the 100 block of Turner Street in Beaufort NC. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Beaufort website that includes the Old Burying Grounds is www.beauforthistoricsite.org.

This seaport cemetery is bordered by white pillars and black wrought iron fences, and by three churches: Ann Street Methodist (1854), Purvis Chapel AME Zion (1820), and the First Baptist educational building. It is shaded by many over 100 year old live oak trees, large fragrant wisteria vines, azaleas, and resurrection ferns.

The Beaufort Historical Association provides a self guided tour brochure and map that highlights 28 notable gravesites, most of which are pictured here. Walking the sandy paths you will discover over 400 graves, Union and Confederate soldiers of the Civil War, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, along with freed blacks and slaves, famous sailors, privateers, wives, lovers, children, even victims of the 1711 Coree & Neuisok Indian massacres. The oldest legible grave marker date is 1756, but many gravesites are much older. Those having been marked with cypress slabs,shells, bricks, or cedar markers - some of which have disappeared over time.

Many graves were of vaulted design to protect them from sea water (this cemetery is 1-2 feet above sea level).

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