Harlem African Burial Ground

Harlem Leaders Worry African Burial Ground Will Be Completely Lost to History February 1, 2010 8:45amcommentshareprint

•Story•CommentsThe Church kept records like this one outlining the cemetery but as it struggled to survive preserving the land became less of a priority, said Rev. Patricia A. Singletary. (DNAinfo/Gabriela Resto-Montero)By Gabriela Resto-Montero

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

EAST HARLEM — What is now the MTA's 126th Street Bus Depot was once a colonial African burial ground, say community leaders who fear the cemetery will be lost to history under a plan to rebuild the station.

The 17th-century cemetery once occupied a one-quarter acre lot on the original Elmendorf Reformed Church grounds, on First Avenue between 126th and 127th Streets, according to archival records. African slaves built the church in what was then Manhattan wilderness


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