Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Mount Zion Cemetery/Female Union Band Cemetery/Colored Union Benevolent Association (CUBA) is a historic cemetery located at 26th Street NW and Mill Road NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1808 as The Methodist Cemetery, it was leased and then sold to Mount Zion United Methodist Church. Although the cemetery buried both white and black people since its inception, it served an almost exclusively African American population after 1849. In 1842, the Female Union Band Society purchased the western half of the lot to establish a secular burying ground for African Americans. Both cemeteries were abandoned by 1950, but began to be restored in the 1990s.Both cemeteries are considered a single unit, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1975."@en }
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- Mount_Zion_Cemetery_(Washington,_D.C.) abstract "Mount Zion Cemetery/Female Union Band Cemetery/Colored Union Benevolent Association (CUBA) is a historic cemetery located at 26th Street NW and Mill Road NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1808 as The Methodist Cemetery, it was leased and then sold to Mount Zion United Methodist Church. Although the cemetery buried both white and black people since its inception, it served an almost exclusively African American population after 1849. In 1842, the Female Union Band Society purchased the western half of the lot to establish a secular burying ground for African Americans. Both cemeteries were abandoned by 1950, but began to be restored in the 1990s.Both cemeteries are considered a single unit, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1975.".
- Q6924771 abstract "Mount Zion Cemetery/Female Union Band Cemetery/Colored Union Benevolent Association (CUBA) is a historic cemetery located at 26th Street NW and Mill Road NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1808 as The Methodist Cemetery, it was leased and then sold to Mount Zion United Methodist Church. Although the cemetery buried both white and black people since its inception, it served an almost exclusively African American population after 1849. In 1842, the Female Union Band Society purchased the western half of the lot to establish a secular burying ground for African Americans. Both cemeteries were abandoned by 1950, but began to be restored in the 1990s.Both cemeteries are considered a single unit, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1975.".