Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse

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.[3][4]

Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse
Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse, June 2010
Location305 E. Boscawen St., Winchester, Virginia
Coordinates39.182799°N 78.160637°W / 39.182799; -78.160637
Area56.1 acres (22.7 ha)
Built1764 (1764), 1844, 1891, 1902
ArchitectBarney, James Stewart; et al.
Architectural styleChateauesque
NRHP reference No.09000163[1]
VLR No.138-0044
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 20, 2009
Designated VLRDecember 18, 2008[2]

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.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. "Mount Hebron Cemetery: History". Mount Hebron Cemetery. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  4. Anna Klemm_and DHR Staff (July 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos

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