On April 8, 1880, a meeting of the Stephens City (then Newtown/Stephensburg) Town Council was held. On motion of Captain George A. Grove, a grant of one-half acre of ground on the western side of the Village on what is known as Academy Hill was made to the African American people as a burial place. The burial ground would later be named Locust Grove Cemetery.
Locust Grove Cemetery, established in 1880, is an active burial ground where old headstones worn down by time and the elements share space with newer headstones…