Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located at 172 Garwin Road in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, United States. The church was a stop on the Greenwich Line of the Underground Railroad through South Jersey operated by Harriet Tubman for 10 years. The church provided supplies and shelter to runaway slaves on their way to Canada from the South. The church and cemetery were part of the early 19th-century free negro settlement sponsored by Quakers known as Small Gloucester. Read more on Wikipedia
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