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MONTGOMERY PRESERVATION INC P.O. Box 4661 | Rockville, Maryland 20849-4661 | www.montgomerypreservation.org MONTGOMERY COUNTY CEMETERY INVENTORY REVISITED BURIAL SITE INFORMATION Name: Moses Hall Cemetery Inventory ID: 105 Alternate name: Gibson Grove AME Church Cemetery, Moses Lodge Cemetery Address: Access from right-of-way just south of 495 Beltway overpass on Seven Locks Road, Cabin John Website: GPS coordinates: Latitude: 38.982811 Longitude: -77.162538 FindaGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2659176 BURIAL SITE TYPE Category: Religious Community Family African American Other: BURIAL SITE EVALUATION Setting/location description: Rural Urban Suburban Wooded Other: General condition (See conditions sheet): Excellent Good Fair Poor None Is there a formal entrance? Yes No, right-of-way Accessibility: Inaccessible By foot By car Is cemetery active (recent burials)? Yes No Is there a cemetery sign: Yes, Interpretive Sign Is cemetery being maintained? Yes Minimal No (If yes, note caretaker’s name below) Are there visible markers? Yes No Approximate number of burials/visible markers: 12+ Date ranges: Description: (markers, materials, arrangement, landscaping/vegetation, fence, paths and roads, etc.) • Sunken graves and random field stones throughout • Periwinkle throughout BURIAL SITE CONTACT Name: Morningside Tabernacle Relationship to burial site: Owner Advocacy contact: Address: 6940 Seven Locks Rd Phone: City: Cabin John State: MD ZIP Code: 20818 BURIAL SITE SURVEYOR Name: Glenn Wallace Survey Date: 1/28/2018 Time spent: 30 min. Email: [email protected] Photographer: Glenn Wallace COMMENTS Suggestions for follow-up: • Worthy of scout clean-up project to uncover more grave locations Safety issues, invasive vegetation removal, fence removal/restoration, signage, trash, erosion, vandalism: • Long dirt path to cemetery along right-of-way with a steep embankment along portions of the path. Must traverse through bamboo. • Severe encroachment of bamboo • Several construction debris piles, scattered concrete, bricks, glass bottles, cans, and rusted metal objects throughout the site Anything of significance about this cemetery? • Former site of Moses Hall (within bamboo overgrowth). Signs of brick paths and concrete foundations SOURCES Cite sources used and resources available: “Gibson Grove Gone But Not Forgotten: The Archaeology of an African American Church” by Alexandra Jones, 2010
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