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Rose Hill Cemetery (Maryland)

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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.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rose Hill Cemetery
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The cemetery was established on land originally granted to the Wroe family by
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was bought by the state of Maryland in 1871. The cemetery has 2,467
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Burials at Rose Hill Cemetery (Hagerstown, Maryland)
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Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland
Washington County Maryland
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1700s
William T. Hamilton
Washington Confederate Cemetery
Confederate
Battle of Antietam
Alexander Armstrong
Attorney General of Maryland
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

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