Side by Side

Rosemount Cemetery climbs a hillside against the fence of Rose Hill, which was segregated, and Columbia's Black community established it in 1873. Its stones show every way people marked a grave: military markers for veterans of every American war since 1861, handmade folk-carved stones, and elaborate Victorian monuments. The same community built St. Paul A.M.E. Church, formed in 1867, and the Colored Public School on College Hill, opened in 1881, whose last high school class graduated in 1949.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Mink Slide and East 8th Street — 0.7 mi
  Columbia's Black business and church district south of the courthouse square, where on the night of February 25, 1946 a white mob gathered and Black veterans stood guard.
• James K. Polk Home and Museum — 0.8 mi
  The 1816 brick house in Columbia where Polk practiced law and campaigned for the legislature, now a museum that also tells of the people the Polk family enslaved.
• Gordon House and Ferry Site — 15 mi
  A brick house of 1818 beside the Duck River at milepost 407.7 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, where a Chickasaw partner and a Tennessee captain ran a ferry and an inn.
• Henry Horton State Park — 19 mi
  A Duck River park on Governor Henry Horton's former farm in Marshall County, with a mill ruin from 1845, kayak floats and the grave of a governor the House declined to impeach.

More markers nearby

• The Reverend Edmund Kelly — 0.6 mi
• James K. Polk House — 0.8 mi
• Freedmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company — 0.8 mi
• Columbia Military Academy — 1.7 mi