Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rehoboth Beach, DE: I

A few weeks ago, I asked a family gathering in West Rehoboth where the cemetery for the Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church was located. A lovely woman loaded-up a bunch of kids in her van and drove us to the nearby site that lies just off Rt.1. The Rehoboth Colored School (extant) is the northern-adjoining parcel to the cemetery.

Note: Last year (2009,) the Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church stated it was established in 1884. There are a few headstones in the burial ground that I photographed that predate 1884. [See posting: Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rehoboth Beach, DE: II.]

Note: There are very few traditional headstones here (typical.) What really caught my attention was how disturbed the landscape is with burials. I tried to capture the rolling and dipping of the ground in these pictures. Due to these landscape similarities, I wonder if there are more unmarked burials outside the fence on the south side of the fenced cemetery plot.













































Adjoining parcel lying to south of cemetery parcel:



Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database

Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rehoboth Beach, DE: II

Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database

Rehoboth Colored School, Rehoboth Beach, DE

Neighbors told me that structure is currently used as a day care and a soup kitchen.


























From Delaware Public Archives:

Insurance evaluations of public schools recorded and photographed in 1941.

http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/document/schoolval/498.shtml#TopOfPage


Rehoboth Colored School, 1941.

Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database