The History of the Gibson Grove Community and the Gibson Grove AMEZ Church, Cabin John School and Morningstar Tabernacle No. 88 Moses Hall and Cemetery

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Whitley, L. Paige

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2021-01

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This paper summarizes the history of the African American community of Gibson Grove and details the pillars of church, school and benevolent society which sustained it. Appendix A provides a review of early Gibson Grove source materials including the three documents from which much early information on Gibson Grove’s early landowners, school and founders was originally based. Appendix B lists death and/or burial information for the estimated more than eighty persons buried in the Morningstar Moses Cemetery

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Friends of Moses Hall commissioned this research and report in 2020.

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Friends of Moses Hall