{"id":162,"date":"2010-03-22T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=162"},"modified":"2010-03-22T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:05:16","slug":"locust-grove-cemetery-shippensburg-pa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/03\/22\/locust-grove-cemetery-shippensburg-pa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Locust Grove Cemetery \u2013 Shippensburg, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=238230\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-163\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"locust_grove\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/locust_grove.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 200 years the North Queen Street Cemetery, now called Locust Grove, has been the final resting place of many Shippenburg area African-Americans. The cemetery was first acknowledged in 1828 in a Cumberland County deed that noted a &#8220;colored cemetery&#8221; was on the site. In 1846, Shippensburg&#8217;s first black church was established here. Among the African-Americans interred at the cemetery are twenty-six Civil War veterans, three of which served with the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiments, the first combat units open to black men during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=238230\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Civil War Trails<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 200 years the North Queen Street Cemetery, now called Locust Grove, has been the final resting place of many Shippenburg area African-Americans. The cemetery was first acknowledged in 1828 in a Cumberland County deed that noted a &#8220;colored cemetery&#8221; was on the site. In 1846, Shippensburg&#8217;s first black church was established here. Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hallowed-grounds","tag-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}