Blackstock "Slave" Cemetery Walkthrough - Fort Mill, South Carolina

An abandoned "slave" cemetery very close to Carowinds themepark located in Fort Mill, SC. There are indeed unmarked slave graves outside the walls, but within the walls and what your seeing are not slave graves, although they do date back to the 1700's. This cemetery was still in use as late as the 1960's. This walk-through occurred on August 22, 2009

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• slave cemetery
• abandoned cemetery
• Blackstock cemetery

[Illiodyssey]

This is not a slave cemetery but was in use when the old Blackstock church was roughly where Carowinds is. There are some slave graves outside of the stone wall but as far as I know, everyone within it were just local families and most definitely not slaves as you can tell by the very nice headstones. Most of the more recent graves towards the back are from the family which sold their farmland to Carowinds in the '70s- my family.

[smirkdirk]

@Illiodyssey Hey thanks for the comment. I'd actually written a blog post which included this video, and in that post included the info you just said, but for some reason it never made it into the actual youtube description. I have adjusted the video description to include the accurate information. Again, thanks!

[gmaureen]

Is there a transcription of these headstones on file with the public library, rootsweb and/or find a grave? If not, someone needs to do it before the stones can't be read. Winter months are easiest because vegetation is down. .

[legna6fo6htaed6]

That sucks when people abandon cemeteries. But nice video.

[oldstock1607]

VERY cool. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those graves contained gold. hint, hint.

[tavonevox16]

Dude,I live 2miles away from carowinds,where is this?i wanna go see it.

[cowbellpeaceprize]

It has a very peaceful atmosphere.

[funspot101]

take a vid at night and make sure to film a ghost! :) *****