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Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States.The district is a 172-acre (70 ha) site located on a series of tree shaded and landscaped hills overlooking central Charleston and includes the following cemeteries: Spring Hill Cemetery (established 1869), Mountain View Cemetery, B'nai Israel Cemetery, Lowenstein Cemetery ...
The Southern Airways Flight 932 memorial at Spring Hill Cemetery in 2006. 1861 - Albert G. Jenkins, former United States House of Representatives; 1875 - Peter Cline Buffington, first mayor of Huntington, West Virginia; 1886 - Charles B. Hoard, former United States House of Representatives
The cemetery also contains the graves of Congressman Thomas O. Edwards (1810–1876), Joseph Thoburn (1825–1864) and Daniel E. Frost (1819–1864), prominent in the West Virginia statehood movement and who died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War.
It is the oldest Episcopal church congregation in West Virginia. rear view from graveyard. In 1741 Morgan Morgan, one of West Virginia's earliest settlers, built the original log church on this site, about halfway between his cabin and the mill. Soon a cemetery was established. The current Greek Revival building was constructed in 1851.
Spring Hill Cemetery (Huntington, West Virginia) W. West Virginia National Cemetery This page was last edited on 28 December 2023, at 19:01 (UTC). ...
William S. Gilliland Log Cabin and Cemetery is a historic home and family cemetery located in Charleston, West Virginia. It was the home and graveyard of one of Charleston's oldest families, the Gillilands. They built the log cabins and lived there until selling it to the Neale family in 1868. [2]
A massive pair of bronze sphinxes guards the mausoleum, which includes stone slabs that weighed 12-23 tons and required teams of horses to move.
Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg (also known as Confederate Burial Grounds) is a historic cemetery located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The cemetery is the final resting place of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battles of Lewisburg (May 23, 1862) and Droop Mountain (November 6, 1863). They are buried in a three-foot ...