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Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemeteries: Cemeteries on Saint Elizabeths' West and East campuses offer an important window into the hospital's history.
The oldest burial ground at Saint Elizabeths was created in 1856 on the wooded western slope of the West Campus. In most cases, funeral arrangements for patients who dies at Saint Elizabeths were…
Glenwood Cemetery Historic District: Glenwood Cemetery is one of DC's longest-running cemeteries and its first for-profit graveyeard.
Chartered by Congress in 1852, Glenwood Cemetery was the first for-profit cemetery in the District, and among the first nationwide. This business model, initially disdained as disrespectful to the…
Oak Hill Cemetery: Tucked into a corner of Georgetown, this cemetery exhibits beautiful landscaping, architecture, and is where some of the most notable figures in DC's history are buried.
Oak Hill Cemetery, an idea first put forward by notable Washington, DC, banker William Wilson Corcoran, is an example of picturesque landscape architecture – first popularized in early 18th century…
Mount Zion Cemetery (Methodist Episcopal Burying Grounds; Female Union Band Society Graveyard): This cemetery is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the significant contributions of Black people to the development of Georgetown.
Mount Zion Cemetery's history and that of the generations of African Americans, both free and enslaved, interred therein highlight life and evolving free African American culture in the District of…
Methodist Cemetery: This one-acre plot in Tenleytown is one of the only surviving community cemeteries in Washington, DC.
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…
Congressional Cemetery Historic District: This graveyard is among the most notable resting places for early American historical figures and has since become important to the LGBTQ+ community.
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…
Woodlawn Cemetery: Established in 1895, this non-denominational, integrated cemetery was one of the most prestigious burying grounds for Black Washingtonians until the 1930s.
Woodlawn Cemetery is situated on a gently sloping plateau and is defined by hills, winding avenues, and diverse vegetation, as well as the panoramic views it offers of the District of Columbia's…