Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District

1554 Farnsworth Dr., Charleston, West Virginia. County/parish: Kanawha.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 18, 1985. NRIS 85003360.

1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District

Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States. The district is a 172-acre (70 ha) 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. 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.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535410

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