African American settlement in what is now the Lake Como community began around 1907–1908. Because formal burial options and records were limited, much of the community’s early burial history was passed down through families. Lake Como Cemetery was established in 1925 by Rev. George Washington Burton II of Zion Missionary Baptist Church. The three-acre cemetery at Helmick Avenue and Halloran Street contains an estimated 300 to 500 interments, many of them unmarked.