Monuments in Congressional Cemetery, Spring 1944

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This file appears in: Congressional Cemetery Historic District
Monuments in Congressional Cemetery, Spring 1944

Horne, Joseph A, photographer. Washington, D.C. Monuments in the Congressional cemetery. Spring, 1944. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/owi2001039263/PP/. (Accessed January 17, 2017.)

This file appears in: Congressional Cemetery Historic District

The original four and one-half acre tract of Congressional Cemetery was purchased from the Government for $200 on April 4, 1807 as a private burial ground. On March 30, 1812, several years after Christ Church was built, Ingle, one of the buyers,…