Flatbush African Burial Ground

The Flatbush African Burial Ground or FABG is the site of a historic African-American cemetery dating to the 17th century at Church and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, on land formerly owned by the adjacent Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church.

[5] Farming was central to Kings County, modern Brooklyn, as the second-largest provider of produce in the country to the end of the 1800s, and the burials of slaves and later free people of African descent were largely segregated from their owners or white neighbors in the cemetery of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church.

[4] Her burial is mentioned in the book titled: A Historical Sketch of the Zabriske Homestead, Flatbush, LI written by Peter Shneck and published in 1881.

[4] A 110-year old "negro woman named Eve" who was owned by Lawrence Voorhes, and previously Lawrence Ditmas for 80 years, was "piously interred in the African burying ground of the village of Flatbush, attended by a great concourse of the people of colour" on Sunday, March 25, 1810.

She was described as of strong intellectual capacity, modest and unassuming, lively and cheerful, and enjoying an almost uninterrupted health as she worked during the summer months "by her own choice" in a garden which she delighted in.

FABG area in T.G. Bergen map of 1855 Flatbush