172 Garwin Rd., Woolwich, New Jersey. County/parish: Gloucester.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 25, 2001. NRIS 01000768.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located at 172 Garwin Road in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, United States. The church was a stop on the Greenwich Line of the Underground Railroad through South Jersey operated by Harriet Tubman for 10 years. The church provided supplies and shelter to runaway slaves on their way to Canada from the South. The church and cemetery were part of the early 19th-century free negro settlement sponsored by Quakers known as Small Gloucester.
The church was founded in 1799 as a Methodist Society and became part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1813. The current structure was built in 1834, remodeled in 1887 and expanded in 1959. The cemetery is a quarter of an acre in size and located just west of the church. It contains more than 200 graves, some of which date back to 1861. The church and cemetery are on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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