Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)
Ivy Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in the Rosemont Historic District of Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Burials began at the site in 1811, when it was a family cemetery, and it received a charter as a community cemetery in 1856. The adjoining residential neighborhood was developed beginning in 1908 as a streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C., as trolley lines of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon railway extended from Alexandria's nearby Union Station (opened 1905). The cemetery is now known for its rare and protected flora and fauna.
Notable burials
- Judge Albert Vickers Bryan
- Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin
- Catharine Carter Critcher, painter, daughter of John Critcher
- Congressman John Critcher
- Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
- Charles M. Goodman, acclaimed modernist architect
- Fairfax Harrison, railroad magnate
- Vola Lawson, first female city manager of Alexandria
- Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, infamous Confederate spy
- Nicholas Trist
- Wernher von Braun, aerospace engineer and space flight pioneer
- Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to President Harry S. Truman
- Amelita Ward
- Descendants of the Washington family
References
- ^ "Ivy Hill Cemetery". ivyhillcemetery.net. Ivy Hill Cemetery.
- ^ "Alexandria (particularly section 8 pp. 44–46" (PDF). dhr.virginia.gov.
- ^ "Ivy Hill Cemetery Historical Preservation Society – Alexandria, VA 22301 – Visit Alexandria, Virginia". Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Ivy Hill Cemetery Company
- ^ Sec. B, lot 42, site 5, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 47683-47684). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
- ^ Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 48952). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
- ^ Sec. 31, lot 8, site 1, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 49545). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
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