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neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was first established in 1719 in the British colonial

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as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church within the Rock Creek Parish. Later, the vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery within its boundaries as established in 1791. The cemetery was formally recognized and established through an

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in 1840. An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. It is a

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of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. John's Russian Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral. The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable

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s, sculptures, and

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. The best known is the

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, a contemplative,

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bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper Adams and her husband,

Henry Adams Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Fra ...

, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as ''Grief''. Saint-Gaudens entitled it ''The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding''. Other notable memorials include the Frederick Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument that is known as ''The Seven Ages of Memory'', the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.

Sculptors of works in the cemetery

* Gutzon Borglum, Rabboni-Ffoulke Memorial, 1909 * James Earle Fraser, Frederick Keep Monument, 1920 * Laura Gardin Fraser, Hitt Memorial, 1931 * William Ordway Partridge,

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, also known as ''Seven Ages'' or ''Memory'', 1897 *

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, Simon Memorial, 1917 *

Vinnie Ream Lavinia Ellen "Vinnie" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the United States Capitol rotunda. Ream's '' Statue of Sequoyah' ...

, Edwin B. Hay Monument, 1906 * Augustus Saint-Gaudens,

, 1890 *

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, Waite Memorial, 1909 *

Adolph Alexander Weinman Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was a Germany-born American sculptor and architectural sculptor. Early life and education Adolph Alexander Weinman was born December 11, 1870 at Durmersheim, near Karlsruhe, Germ ...

, Spencer Memorial, after 1919 Numerous fine works by unknown sculptors also exist in the cemetery.

Notable interments

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* Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), prominent meteorologist *

John James Abert John James Abert (17 September 1788 – 27 January 1863) was a United States soldier. He headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years, during which time he organized the mapping of the American West. Abert was born in Shepherdstown ...

(1788–1863), chief of the Corps of Topographical Engineers *

(1838–1918), writer, descendant of two U.S. presidents; grave is marked by the Adams Memorial * Clover Hooper Adams (1843–1885), Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer, wife of Henry Adams; grave is marked by the Adams Memorial * Alice Warfield Allen (1869–1929), mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson * Doug Allison (1846–1916), baseball player * Frank Crawford Armstrong (1835–1909), Confederate general * Timothy P. Andrews (1794–1868), Union Army general and paymaster-general of the United States Army (1862–1864) *

James B. Aswell James Benjamin Aswell Sr. (December 23, 1869 – March 16, 1931) was a prominent educator and a Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days into his tenth term. Life and care ...

(1869–1931), educator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913 to 1931

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* Abraham Baldwin (1754–1807), Yale graduate, U.S. senator, attorney, signer of the U.S. Constitution, first president of the University of Georgia *

Cecil A. Beasley Cecil A. Beasley (1876–1959) was an American lawyer and politician. Early life Cecil A. Beasley was born on December 20, 1876, in Fayette, Alabama. Beasley graduated from Alabama State Normal College in Florence, Alabama, in 1896. He gr ...

, Alabama state senator * Melville Bell (1819–1905), Scottish teacher and inventor, father of

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Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial is a public artwork by Lee Lawrie, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. "Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial" was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Inventories ...

** Eliza Grace Symonds Bell – wife of Melville Bell *

Joseph Bray Bennett Joseph Bray Bennett (February 23, 1833August 17, 1913) was an English American immigrant, machine manufacturer, and Republican politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Jefferson County during the 1879 and 1880 sess ...

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Andrew H. Berding Andrew Henry Berding (February 8, 1902 – August 23, 1989) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1957 to 1961. Biography Berding was educated at the University of Oxford. He worked as a newspaper correspondent a ...

, journalist and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs * Emile Berliner (1851–1929), German-born American inventor of the

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(1850–1909), composer and organist. * Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), Abraham Lincoln's Postmaster General *

Ben H. Brown Jr. Ben Hill Brown Jr. (February 8, 1914May 25, 1989) was the United States Ambassador to Liberia from 1964 to 1969. Early life Brown was born on February 8, 1914, in Spartanburg, South Carolina to parents Ben Hill and Clara Twitty Brown. His father ...

(1914–1989), former

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Camille Chautemps Camille Chautemps (1 February 1885 – 1 July 1963) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He was the father-in-law of U.S. politician and statesman Howard J. ...

(1885–1963), prime minister of France * Edward Clark (1822–1902), Architect of the Capitol * Catherine Cate Coblentz (1897–1951), writer, wife of William Coblentz *

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Susan Ann Edson Susan Ann Edson (January 4, 1823November 13, 1897) was one of the first women to attend medical school, served as a Civil War Army Nurse, and was a friend and personal physician to President James A. Garfield and his wife Lucretia. Early life a ...

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Henry Ellsworth Ewing Henry Ellsworth Ewing (11 February 1883 – 5 January 1951) was an American arachnologist. He worked at several universities, but spent most of his career at the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Ewing was considered an authority on arachni ...

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* Charles S. Fairfax (1829–1869), Virginia-born California politician who was entitled to the British title 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron * Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899), Associate justice of US Supreme Court * Peter Force (1790–1868), politician, U.S. Army lieutenant in the War of 1812, newspaper editor, archivist, and historian, who served as the twelfth mayor of Washington, D.C., and whose library of historical documents became the first major Americana collection of the Library of Congress *

Israel Moore Foster Israel Moore Foster (January 12, 1873 – June 10, 1950) was a Republican Representative in the United States Congress from the state of Ohio, serving three terms from 1919 to 1925. Biography Born in Athens, Ohio, Foster attended the publi ...

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William H. French William Henry French (January 13, 1815 – May 20, 1881) was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer, General in the American Civil War. He rose to temporarily command a corps within the Army of the Potomac, but was re ...

(1815–1881), major general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War

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Julius Garfinckel Julius Garfinckel (November 5, 1872 – November 5, 1936) was a prominent American merchant, business executive and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Washington, D.C., department store Garfinckel's. Biography He was born in Syracuse ...

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, Washington Star * Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), president of the National Geographic Society,

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(1949–2021), diplomat * Frank Hatton (1846–1894), U.S. postmaster general and editor of the '' Washington Post'' *

Christian Heurich Christian Heurich (September 12, 1842 – March 7, 1945) was an American brewer and real estate investor in Washington D.C. His company, Christian Heurich Brewing Company, established in 1872, was the largest brewery in Washington, D.C. At ...

(1842–1945), German-born American founder of Heurich Brewery (1871–1954) *

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(1875–1958), U.S. representative from Washington and member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now the United States Tax Court) * William Henry Holmes (1846–1933), known for scientific illustration of the American West, his role in the controversy over the antiquity of humans in the Americas, and leadership at the Smithsonian Institution

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Charles Francis Jenkins Charles Francis Jenkins (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934) was an American engineer who was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. His businesses incl ...

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Samuel H. Kauffmann Samuel Hay Kaufmann (April 30, 1829 – March 15, 1906) was an American newspaper publisher who was the former owner of the ''Washington Star''. He also served as president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and is credited with helping to expand bo ...

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(1951–1973), a former KGB agent and defector from the Soviet Union to Canada

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and shipbuilder, Chief Constructor of the Navy from 1849 to 1853 and chief of the United States Navys Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1853 to 1871 * Fulton Lewis (1903–1966), radio and television broadcaster * Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt * Anthony Francis Lucas (1855–1921), Croatian-born mechanical engineer

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Arthur MacArthur Sr. Arthur MacArthur Sr. (January 26, 1815August 26, 1896) was a Scottish-American immigrant, lawyer, and judge. He was the fourth Governor of Wisconsin and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He was the father ...

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* Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution *

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* Helen Yakobson, (1913–2002) academic and professor at George Washington University

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