• Source: Rose Hill Cemetery (Maryland)

      • Rose Hill Cemetery, located in Hagerstown, Maryland, is the oldest public cemetery in Washington County Maryland. The cemetery features over 102 acres of burial space and is the final resting place of over 43,000 individuals.
      The cemetery was established on land originally granted to the Wroe family by King George III in the 1700s. Dr. John A. Wroe and his wife purchased the land. Their home was on a hill called Wroe's Hill. In 1865, William T. Hamilton and a group of individuals established the Hagerstown Cemetery Association and in 1866 purchased land needed to establish the area's first public cemetery and chartered the cemetery as Rose Hill Cemetery of Hagerstown.


      Cemetery within the cemetery


      The Washington Confederate Cemetery was bought by the state of Maryland in 1871. The cemetery has 2,467 Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Antietam. Only 346 soldiers graves were identified.


      Notable interments


      Alexander Armstrong (1877–1939), Attorney General of Maryland and Republican candidate for governor
      George Bell (brigadier general)
      William Thomas Hamilton
      William Preston Lane, Jr
      John Thomson Mason, Jr
      Hiram Percy Maxim
      Louis Emory McComas
      James Dixon Roman
      Robert Lawson Rose
      William O. Wilson


      References




      External links


      Rose Hill Cemetery – official site
      U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rose Hill Cemetery
      Rose Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave

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