Beulah Cemetery

Before 1884, Vicksburg's Black residents were buried in church grounds or on private land. That year a fraternal order, Vicksburg Tabernacle No. 19, established Beulah, on 52 acres that Harvey and Lucy Shannon bought for $1,000. It became the city's only cemetery for African Americans and now holds more than 5,500 graves, with an unmarked back section known as the paupers' field. Rosa A. Temple, the educator whose name a high school carries, is buried here, as is Robert Banks Marshall, the city's first Black postal employee. It was listed on the National Register in 1992.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.1 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.4 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Old Court House Museum — 1.8 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.

More markers nearby

• Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery — 0.6 mi
• Burial Site of Lynching Victims — 0.8 mi
• Anshe Chesed Congregation — 1.0 mi
• St. Mary's Catholic Church — 1.3 mi