From 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on June 5, 2021, Patrick Henry National Memorial in Brookneal will host a ceremony to dedicate the Quarter Place Enslaved and African American Cemetery at Red Hill, the last home and burial site of Patrick Henry.
Until 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the residents of Quarter Place were enslaved. After the war, a free Black population lived there. Only one tombstone bearing a name stands in the cemetery at the end of the Quarter Place Trail. All other graves are marked by simple fieldstones. After years of research, 147 graves have been discovered, and 40 identified.