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Rock Creek Cemetery

Rock Creek Cemetery

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 3:33AM GMT
Classification: Cemetery

ROCK CREEK CEMETERY - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The cemetery is owned by the governing body of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish. At a church meeting in September 1719, longtime member Colonel John Bradford, a Maryland planter, donated 100 acres of land to support the church. This land encompasses Rock Creek Cemetery, which began as a burial ground for parishioners.

In the 1830s, the church decided to expand the burial ground to be a public cemetery for the city of Washington. An act of Congress in 1840 established the cemetery as a public burial place.

The cemetery's beautiful, park-like setting is now a place of pilgrimage for people from all over the world, who come to see the remarkable variety of monuments and sculptures and often to visit the renowned Adams Memorial by Augustus St. Gaudens.

Rock Creek Cemetery is open daily
from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

The cemetery office is open from
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Mon - Fri.

Genealogical research
(up to 4 people) $ 25.

Are there any online burial records or books
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Re: Rock Creek Cemetery

Posted: 30 Mar 2015 1:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Find a grave has 17,144 interments listed about 71% are photographed. I also believe there is a book of interments from early records through early 1900's by Paul Sluby. There is also a website rockcreekparish.org where you can look up records.

Hope this helps,

Kia Fennell
Derwood, MD
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