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Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse

 
 
Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bradley Owen, October 19, 2023
1. Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse Marker
Inscription.
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Established in 1844
And Gatehouse
Built in 1902

Is registered as a
Virginia Historic Landmark
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Board of Historic Resources and placed on the

National Register of
Historic Places


By the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service on March 20, 2009

 
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places series list. A significant historical date for this entry is March 20, 2009.
 
Location. 39° 10.97′ N, 78° 9.641′ W. Marker is in Winchester, Virginia. Marker is at the intersection of South East Lane and East Boscawen Street, on the right when traveling north on South East Lane. Marker is located on the west side of the gatehouse at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 305 East Boscawen Street, Winchester VA 22601, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Revolutionary War Soldiers in Mt. Hebron Cemetery (a few steps from this marker); Lutheran Pioneers (within shouting distance of this marker); General Daniel Morgan (about 300 feet away, measured
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in a direct line); Original Land Grant (about 500 feet away); South Carolina (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Third Battle of Winchester (approx. 0.2 miles away); North Carolina Confederate Dead (approx. 0.2 miles away); Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Winchester.
 
Regarding Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse. Established as a public cemetery in 1844 on two older churchyards, including that of Christ Episcopal Church, grave stones within the cemetery date back to the 1760’s. General Daniel Morgan, a veteran of the Revolutionary War is buried here along with the family of Harry Flood Byrd, who controlled Virginia Politics for more than 50-Years. Many Civil War soldiers who died in Winchester's hospitals were interred in this cemetery, but after the war, the Union Burial Corps reinterred many Union dead into the Winchester National Cemetery established nearby, or to their home towns. The 1866 expansion included Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, within the confines of Mount Hebron, for 2,576 Confederate war dead. Its iron fence was added in 1891 and the Chateauesque
Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bradley Owen, October 19, 2023
2. Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse Marker
style limestone gatehouse for the superintendent was added in 1902.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on January 6, 2024. It was originally submitted on January 6, 2024, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. This page has been viewed 54 times since then. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on January 6, 2024, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.

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