Google Map of all the known cemeteries in the Hampton Roads Area.
Mt Gilead Baptist Church is right next door but I am not sure there is any affiliation between them and the cemetery. The one repeated motif on these markers is a four pointed star but the church doesn't seem to have that. The cemetery hasn't seen any real use since the 1950s and the frequencey of cement tombstones points to it being a cemetery for people who couldn't afford to be buried anyplace else. The disrepair here is evident. But I did find one really nice looking mushroom that looks like a Laetiporus sulphureus or Chicken of the Woods which is an extreamly tasty mushroom but the mushroom talk happens over here.
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