0.2 miles northeast of the junction of 3rd and 4th Aves., Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. County/parish: Charleston.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 30, 2002. NRIS 02000570.
Remley Point Cemetery (also known as Scanlonville Cemetery) is a cemetery located in the Scanlonville community in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. It contains 41 marked graves ranging from 1867 to 1989, but residents claim there may be over 1,000 people, largely African American, buried there. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
In 1999, Tom and Victoria Rogers purchased the three-acre cemetery with the intention of incorporating it into a broader homestead development. In 2001, the Rogers instituted legal proceedings to have the graves relocated in order to construct their home; however, they subsequently withdrew their application when residents of Scanlonville initiated legal action to prevent the move. Following the resubmission of this request in 2005, a judge determined that this historically significant cemetery could not be developed.
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