Lincoln Memorial Cemetery is a commercial, privately owned, historically Black cemetery located on the south side of Suitland Road (Maryland State Highway 218) in Suitland, Maryland.

[1] The cemetery was established in 1927 and is the final resting place of many notable African-Americans, including Walter Washington, Charles Richard Drew, Charles Hamilton Houston, Emmett Jay Scott, [1] and Carter Godwin Woodson.

[1] Lincoln Memorial Cemetery was founded on part of the Landon dairy farm in 1927 by James Easley Edmunds of Lynchburg, VA for use by Black residents of Washington metropolitan area during a time when cemeteries were segregated and there were few options in the District itself.

The grounds were designed by landscape architect John H.

[2] The most prominent feature in the cemetery is the Bishop W. McCollough mausoleum, which features a statue of the seated Bishop created by Ed Dwight in 1991.