Covel Rd. between Douglas and Post Rds., Edmond, Oklahoma. County/parish: Oklahoma.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 27, 1991. NRIS 91001895.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Gower Cemetery is a historic African American cemetery located in Edmond, Oklahoma. It was established in 1889 by a formerly enslaved couple named Ophelia and John Gower who allowed other families of color and indigent people to bury their dead on their land for free.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86511772