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Washington Cemetery – eastern edge of cemetery#1, bordering Ocean Parkway. Washington Cemetery is a historical and predominantly Jewish burial ground located at 5400 Bay Parkway in Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York, United States. Founded in Kings County in 1850, outside the independent city of Brooklyn, [ 1] it became a Jewish burial ground as ...
Congressional Cemetery. / 38.88139°N 76.97778°W / 38.88139; -76.97778. The Congressional Cemetery, officially Washington Parish Burial Ground, is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, S.E., in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory " founded ...
Mount Olivet Cemetery. / 38.911372°N 76.979449°W / 38.911372; -76.979449. Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 1300 Bladensburg Road, NE in Washington, D.C. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The largest Catholic burial ground in the District of Columbia, it was one of the first ...
Added to NRHP. May 8, 1998. The Washington Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Washington Court House in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Established in the mid-19th century, the cemetery was transformed from a typical cemetery into a masterpiece of design during its first several decades.
Prospect Hill Cemetery, also known as the German Cemetery, is a historic German - American cemetery founded in 1858 and located at 2201 North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. From 1886 to 1895, the Prospect Hill Cemetery board of directors battled a rival organization which illegally attempted to take title to the grounds and sell a portion ...
May 19, 1983. Designated NYCL. July 19, 1966. New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery is a historic Dutch Reformed church and cemetery at 630 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1823–1824 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in clapboard. It has a pitched gable roof and sits on a rough stone ...
In 1957, real-estate investor Louis N. Bell offered to buy Columbian Harmony Cemetery. Bell informed the society that he would expand his 107.5 acres (435,000 m 2) Forest Lawn Cemetery (which was near the society's former property in Landover) by 65 acres (260,000 m 2). He offered the society a 25 percent stake in the new cemetery and to pay ...
Washington Avenue Historic District (Philadelphia) / 39.93806°N 75.16222°W / 39.93806; -75.16222. Washington Avenue Historic District, or Washington Avenue Factory District, is a national historic district located in the Hawthorne and Bella Vista neighborhoods of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It comprises the remaining four blocks ...