Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States. The district is a Script error: No such module "convert". 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, and Mount Olivet Cemetery. It is West Virginia's largest cemetery complex. The district features Spring Hill Mausoleum, a stone faced reinforced concrete structure constructed in 1910.[1] Notable graves throughout the cemetery include the following:
- George W. Atkinson, 10th Governor of West Virginia
- Samuel B. Avis, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1915
- Joseph H. Gaines, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1901 to 1911
- James Hall Huling, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897
- Adam Brown Littlepage, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913, 1915 to 1917 and 1917 to 1919
- William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia
- Samuel Augustine Miller, Representative for Virginia in Confederate States Congress
- Charles P. Snyder, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1889
- George W. Summers, Representative for Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843 and 1843 to 1845, also Whig nominee for Governor in the 1851 election
- Emanuel Willis Wilson, 7th Governor of West Virginia
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[2]
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Spring Hill View of Downtown Charleston, April 2009
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External links
- National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form
- Spring Hill Cemetery Park, Rules and Regulations (includes history), as adopted by the Commission on January 14, 2000
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