National Register of Historic Places

Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse

Winchester, Winchester County, Virginia
Listed
March 20, 2009
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
09000163

About this property

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. Mount Hebron was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Location

305 E. Boscawen St.
Winchester, Winchester County, Virginia
39.18628, -78.16031

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Nearby Battles

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When was Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse listed on the National Register?

Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2009.

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Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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