Old City Cemetery

Front: This cemetery, established on this site about 1900 as the Spartanburg Colored Cemetery, includes many graves moved here from the first black cemetery in the city, established in 1849 1 mi. W. and closed by the expansion of the Charleston & Western Carolina RR. Also known as the New Colored Cemetery until 1928 and later known as Freeman's Cemetery, it has been known as the Old City Cemetery since 1959. Reverse: Prominent persons buried here include educator Mary Honor Farrow Wright (1862 1946), for whom Mary Wright School was named; midwife Phyllis Goins (1860 1945) and policeman Tobe Hartwell (d. 1932), for whom city housing developments were named; city councilman Thomas Bomar (1864 1904), and educator Annie Wright McWhirter (1885 1976), first woman to teach at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.