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Lincoln Memorial Cemetery

Suitland, Italy

Lincoln Memorial Cemetery

Lincoln Memorial Cemetery is a commercial, privately owned, historically Black cemetery located on the south side of Suitland Road (Maryland State Highway 218) in Suitland, Maryland. The cemetery is adjacent to Washington National Cemetery and across the street from the historically white Cedar Hill

Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1927 and is the final resting place of many notable African-Americans, including Walter Washington, Charles Richard Drew, Charles Hamilton Houston, Emmett Jay Scott, and Carter Godwin Woodson.

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