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Union Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Union Cemetery, September 2012
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Location	900 blook S. Elm St., Greensboro, North Carolina
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1882 (1882)
MPS	Greensboro MPS
NRHP reference No.	93001142
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1993

Union Cemetery, also known as South Elm Street Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The cemetery for African-Americans was established in 1882. Union retains 97 gravemarkers with death dates from 1882 to 1940. The majority of the markers date between 1901 and 1917, when the city of Greensboro closed the cemetery.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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