Raleigh City Cemeteries Preservation, Inc.
Raleigh City Cemeteries Preservation (RCCP) is a 501 (c) 3 organization and is incorporated as a nonprofit in the State of North Carolina. We were established in 2006. RCCP is a partner with the City of Raleigh and others to promote and provide preservation and restoration of city owned historic public cemeteries:

City Cemetery, located on 7.68 acres at East, New Bern and Hargett Streets, this is the oldest public cemetery in Raleigh, established by the NC General Assembly in 1798. Burials include founding fathers of Raleigh, legislators, and stone masons from Scotland, Ireland and England who helped build the state capitol building and other structures. City Cemetery includes 1.5 acres of burials of free and enslaved African Americans, with death dates no later than 1872.  READ MORE

Mt. Hope Cemetery was founded in 1872 as a city owned African American cemetery. Mt. Hope is located on 34.5 acres at Fayetteville Street and Prospect Avenue and is a pastoral well landscaped cemetery with hills and views of downtown. Those buried there include the Reverend Henry Beard Delany, one of two black Bishops of the Episcopal Church at the time of his death, Dr. Manassa Pope, who ran for mayor in 1919, and Colonel James H. Young, commander of a volunteer black regiment during the Spanish-American War. READ MORE

O’Rorke Cemetery, slightly less than one acre, was established on land donated to the Catholic Church in 1858 by John O’Rorke, a member of the church. Sometimes also called the Catholic Cemetery, the cemetery was used as a potter’s field. It is owned by the City of Raleigh and is located on Pender Street, and Tarboro Road. READ MORE

How to Access our Cemetery Databases and GIS Map
Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) map of City Cemetery, the Shaw-Blunt database of City Cemetery, and databases for Mt. Hope Cemetery and O’Rorke Cemetery are available on this web site along with copies of the National Register of Historic Places nominations for City Cemetery and Mt. Hope Cemetery. To access all databases and nominations, go to the button bar on this home page, click on “Cemeteries,” and click on the individual cemetery.