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'''Union Hill Cemetery''', sometimes known as '''Canterbury Cemetery''', is located along the 200 block of [[Hollywood Boulevard]] between [[Homewood]] and [[Birmingham]]. Burials were performed within it from the 1880s to the 1930s. It was previously associated with [[Canterbury Methodist Church]], but the church was demolished in the 1960s to make way for [[Highway 280]].
'''Union Hill Cemetery''', sometimes known as '''Canterbury Cemetery''', is located along the 200 block of [[Hollywood Boulevard]] between [[Homewood]] and [[Birmingham]]. Burials were performed within it from the 1880s to the 1930s, although some headstones record deaths as early as the 1850s.
 
The cemetery developed adjacent to the former [[Union Hill Methodist Episcopal Church]] which moved to [[Shades Valley]] in [[1874]] after a year on [[Union Hill]]. Soon later a [[Union Hill School]] began meeting in the church, but closed after [[Shades Cahaba School]] was built. The name of the church was changed in [[1928]] to [[Canterbury Methodist Episcopal Church]]. The church building was demolished in the 1960s to make way for improvements to [[U. S. Highway 280]].


== References ==
== References ==
*[http://www.birminghamgenealogy.org/research/union_hill_cemetery.htm Union Hill Cemetery] at the Birmingham Genealogical Society website
* [http://www.birminghamgenealogy.org/research/union_hill_cemetery.htm Union Hill Cemetery] at the Birmingham Genealogical Society website
*[http://home.swbell.net/txanita/Genealogy/p11.htm Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas McClure Rice and Elizabeth Wilson Rice - Person Page 11].  Accessed 22 September 2006.
* [http://home.swbell.net/txanita/Genealogy/p11.htm Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas McClure Rice and Elizabeth Wilson Rice - Person Page 11].  Accessed 22 September 2006.
 
==External links==
* [http://birminghamalabamadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/01/rememberance-union-hill-cemetery.html Remembrance - Union Hill Cemetery] at Birmingham, Alabama Daily Photo


[[Category: Cemeteries]]
[[Category:Cemeteries]]
[[Category: Hollywood Boulevard]]
[[Category:Hollywood Boulevard]]

Revision as of 11:05, 15 January 2009

Union Hill Cemetery, sometimes known as Canterbury Cemetery, is located along the 200 block of Hollywood Boulevard between Homewood and Birmingham. Burials were performed within it from the 1880s to the 1930s, although some headstones record deaths as early as the 1850s.

The cemetery developed adjacent to the former Union Hill Methodist Episcopal Church which moved to Shades Valley in 1874 after a year on Union Hill. Soon later a Union Hill School began meeting in the church, but closed after Shades Cahaba School was built. The name of the church was changed in 1928 to Canterbury Methodist Episcopal Church. The church building was demolished in the 1960s to make way for improvements to U. S. Highway 280.

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