Entry gates to Methodist Cemetery, date unknown.

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This file appears in: Methodist Cemetery: This one-acre plot in Tenleytown is one of the only surviving community cemeteries in Washington, DC.

This file appears in: Methodist Cemetery: This one-acre plot in Tenleytown is one of the only surviving community cemeteries in Washington, DC.

Methodist Cemetery: This one-acre plot in Tenleytown is one of the only surviving community cemeteries in Washington, DC.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Established as a community cemetery in 1855 by twelve residents of Tenleytown, this burial ground is a significant landscape that evokes the geography of early Washington, DC. Shaped as a rectangular…