Evergreen Negro Cemetery, Houston, TX
Evergreen Negro Cemetery, Houston, TX

Houston,

TX

United States

Evergreen Negro Cemetery

Located in the city鈥檚 historic Fifth Ward, this cemetery founded in 1887 by Alexander Kelley, a formerly enslaved person and entrepreneur,  is one of the oldest  African American cemeteries in Houston. Before its conversion into a cemetery, this land is believed to have been a cotton plantation. Those interred a