Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It was established about 1872. The approximate total number of monuments in the cemetery is 1,454, although interment records list over 7,000 individuals. Notable contributing resources include the W. H. Matthews (1828–1902) mausoleum, the front entrance gates and gate posts (c. 1930s), and the garden cemetery landscape design. Notable people buried include Gaston Alonzo Edwards.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
History The cemetery was established in 1872 after the city of Raleigh purchased approximately 11 acres to serve as burial grounds for blacks after the black section of City Cemetery was deemed full.
Notable burials Henry Beard Delany (1858–1928), Episcopal bishop James Hamlin (1859–1924), businessman John Walcott Kay (1890–1927), physician and hospital founder Willie Otey Kay (1894–1992), dress maker Calvin E. Lightner (1878–1960), mortician Evelyn Pope (1908–1995), librarian Manassa Thomas Pope (1858–1935), physician
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