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Olivewood site, in Houston, Texas, lies close to a bend in oak lake, on the line to Chaney Junction, wherever the primary and Sixth wards meet simply northwest of downtown. The 6-acre (24,000 m2) site is associate degree historic resting place for several freed slaves and a few of Houston’s earliest black residents. In 1875, the land, that had antecedently been used for slave burials, was purchased by Richard Brock, Houston’s initial black representative. It opened as a site for black Methodists in 1877. Once Olivewood was platted, it had been the primary African-Americans site at intervals the Houston town limits.
Many nineteenth century potent African-Americans were buried within the site, together with Reverend Elias Dibble, initial minister of Trinity United Methodist Church; Reverend Wade H. Logan, conjointly a minister of the church; and James Kyle, a blacksmith; moreover as Richard Brock. The site includes over 700 family plots around a sleek, elliptical drive that originated at associate degree ornate entry gate. It contains graves of each the well-heeled and people United Nations agency died in poverty; thus, the grave markers run the gamut from elaborate Victorian monuments to easy, hand-loomed headstones. Burials at Olivewood site continuing through the Nineteen Sixties.
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