Old First cemetery of elizabethtown

The Old First Cemetery dates back to the original founding of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown. The cemetery contains over 2,000 headstones, but the total number of burials is unknown. It contains grave markers dating from the late-seventeenth century to 1917, including markers for some of the church’s most prominent patrons including Rev. James Caldwell; American Revolution Soldiers; and 313 Freed and Enslaved Africans.