Public Works

City Owned and Operated Cemeteries

General Cemetery Services

The City of Greenville owns and maintains four cemeteries: Brownhill, Cherry Hill, Greenwood and Homestead Memorial Gardens.  General cemetery services offered by the Public Works Department of the City are the sale of grave spaces, crypts and niches; grave openings/closings; maintenance of the cemetery properties; issuance of cemetery permits for installation of markers, monuments, and other memorials; and maintenance and preservation of burial records.  Requests for general cemetery services should be directed to the Public Works Department, located at 1500 Beatty Street, as follows:

• To purchase grave spaces, crypts, niches, or marker permits, visit the Public Works Department.
• For grave openings and closings and interment spaces, funeral home directors are required to process the permits.  For proper procedures, please call (252) 329-4688.
• Cemetery maintenance concerns (i.e. appointments to physically locate a burial space, removal of vase, etc.) should be directed to the Public Works Department at (252) 329-4529.
• Questions regarding cemetery property ownership and burial records, resale of cemetery spaces, and issuance of cemetery permits for the installation of markers, monuments, and other memorials should be directed to the Public Works Department at (252) 329-4688.  Ownership records are available for all lots.  Burial records are available for burials since October 1984. 

Citizens should contact local monument companies and funeral homes for the purchase or installation of memorials, vaults and other products and services associated with burials.  For information regarding purchasing and reselling cemetery spaces; cremations; crypts, mausoleums or other structures; opening and closing of graves; disinterment; dimensions for upright or flat markers; placement of fresh or artificial flowers, trees, or shrubs, etc., click here to view the Cemeteries Ordinance. The following is a listing of the current cemetery fees and charges.  All cemetery fees and charges must be paid before use of interment spaces.  Click here to advance to Locations of Cemeteries and Availability of Interment Spaces.

Current Cemetery Fees and Charges

Effective July 1, 2008 

City Resident 

Non-Resident 

The City accepts cash, Visa and  MasterCard credit cards, or checks made payable to “The City of Greenville”.

Locations of Cemeteries and Availability of Interment Spaces

All cemetery gates are open during daylight hours.
Due to unmarked and unrecorded graves throughout the cemeteries,
burial records prior to October 1984 are unavailable.
Section, Lot, and Space alphabets and numbers used for locating gravesites are
to be found on the curbing at the Brownhill and Greenwood cemeteries. 
 In Homestead, the Lot and Space numbers are found on hubs.


Homestead Memorial Gardens Cemetery
4251 E. 10th Street Extension
(N.C. Highway 33, Near Portertown Road, across from Pinewood Cemetery)

Homestead Memorial Gardens Cemetery has 30 acres of land for current use and future expansion.  The cemetery was acquired by the City of Greenville on June 19, 2003.  Numerous single grave spaces are available for sale as well as niches, inside and outside crypts housed in the Main Mausoleum.  The Hillside West Mausoleum has available outside crypts.  Sixteen or less single grave spaces per lot are sectioned in seven gardens: The Cross, Fountain, Gethsemane, Hillside West, Honor, Peace, and St. Peters.  There are no signs at Homestead identifying the location of the six gardens.  (All grave spaces are sold as single graves.)  While there are a few private mausoleums in the Greenwood Cemetery, Homestead is the only city-owned cemetery that offers burial options for traditional full burials as well as above ground burials.

Brownhill Cemetery
811 Howell Street  (Across from South Greenville School)

There are no interment spaces available for sale at this old African-American cemetery.  The City of Greenville acquired 19.09 acres for a cemetery  “situated in the Greene Place, sometimes called Cooper Field” on October 10, 1939.  Cooper Field is the oldest section of Brownhill.  The remainder of the cemetery is divided into single grave, four-grave, six-grave and odd-sized lots. 

Cherry Hill Cemetery
Pitt Street

There are no interment spaces available for sale at Cherry Hill Cemetery.  Cherry Hill is the oldest and smallest of the city-owned cemeteries.   The City acquired this five-acre cemetery in 1872.   It is known for its “many spires and tall columns in the lots…and massive stones usually richly ornamented on several lots”.  At Cherry Hill, there are thirty-two graves per section (lot).  Each section is divided in quadrants.

Greenwood Cemetery
Fifth Street (Adjacent to St. Peter’s Catholic Church)

There are no interment spaces available for sale at Greenwood Cemetery.  The City acquired Greenwood Cemetery on November 8, 1924.  One hundred and one acres were purchased at that time for a cemetery. There are various sized lots in Greenwood including single grave, two-grave, four-grave, and eight-grave as well as odd-sized lots.  A section for American Legion #39 Veterans is located at this cemetery; however, spaces are very limited for future burials.