Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse explained

Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:December 18, 2008[1]
Designated Other1 Number:138-0044
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:305 E. Boscawen St., Winchester, Virginia
Coordinates:39.1828°N -78.1606°W
Built:, 1844, 1891, 1902
Architect:Barney, James Stewart; et al.
Architecture:Chateauesque
Added:March 20, 2009
Refnum:09000163

Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse is a historic cemetery and gatehouse located at Winchester, Virginia. The cemetery was established in 1844 on two older churchyards, including that of Christ Episcopal Church in 1853. 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 for 2,576 Confederate war dead. Iron fence added in 1891 and the Chateauesque style limestone gatehouse for superintendent added in 1902.[2] [3]

Founding Father Daniel Roberdeau (1727–1795) and Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan (1736–1802) are buried at Mount Hebron. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013.
  2. Web site: Mount Hebron Cemetery: History. Mount Hebron Cemetery. 20 May 2012.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse. Anna Klemm_and DHR Staff. July 2008. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos