Lucas Hill Cemetery
Lucas Hill Cemetery
This is going to be another quick post. We've previously discussed the Lucas Tavern on the Old Federal Road in Pike Road, Alabama. Years after the tavern itself was moved to Old Alabama Town, a nearby cemetery from the same time period when the tavern was operating had fallen into complete disarray. In 2005 the founders of a new Pike Road community, The Waters, arranged to move the cemetery a few miles south and take over its care.
You can see the historical marker, it's transcription, and a couple of photos of the cemetery itself below.
“Lucas Hill Cemetery
Circa 1816
The Founders of The Waters relocated and restored this historic cemetery in May 2005. The original cemetery site, located along the Old Federal Road beyond the boundary of the Creek Indian lands at Line Creek, had fallen into ruin due to years of neglect. The Lucas Hill Cemetery is the final resting place for some of the earliest settlers who established plantations and farmsteads along the Mount Meigs Terrace now present day eastern Montgomery County, Alabama.”
