Bible Sojourn Society Cemetery

Front inscription

The Town of Lincolnville was founded in 1867 and incorporated in 1889 as a haven for African Americans. In 1891, town leaders established the Bible Sojourn Society Cemetery here on the farmland of Maria S. Eden. The 2.75-acre cemetery served as a community burial ground and was long associated with Ebenezer A.M.E. Church (1/2 mi. N), the town’s first church.

Reverse inscription

For nearly a century, Lincolnville residents regularly held burials at this cemetery. Among those interred here are many of the town’s founding families, early settlers, and later local leaders. Burials stopped around the time of Hurricane Hugo (1989) and resumed in the 2010s after the property was restored. In 2015, the cemetery was acquired by the Town of Lincolnville.