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Historic Oakwood Cemetery

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Area
  
77 ha

Added to NRHP
  
25 June 1974

Phone
  
+1 919-832-6077

Historic Oakwood Cemetery

Location
  
Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina

Part of
  
Oakwood Historic District (#74001380)

Address
  
701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8AM–5PMSunday8AM–5PMMonday8AM–5PMTuesday8AM–5PMWednesday8AM–5PMThursday8AM–5PMFriday8AM–5PMSaturday8AM–5PM

Burials
  
Elizabeth Edwards, Jim Valvano, Henry K. Burgwyn

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Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in North Carolina's capital, Raleigh, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its 102 acres (41 ha), the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and one-half acres (1 ha), and the Hebrew Cemetery, both given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867.

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Notable burials

  • George B. Anderson
  • Charles B. Aycock
  • Josiah W. Bailey
  • William Horn Battle
  • Kemp P. Battle
  • Thomas Bragg
  • Needham B. Broughton
  • Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.
  • Lorenzo Charles
  • William Ruffin Cox
  • Josephus Daniels
  • Elizabeth Edwards, and son Wade Edwards monument created by Robert Mihaly
  • William G. Enloe
  • Daniel Gould Fowle
  • Jesse Helms
  • Robert Hoke
  • William Woods Holden
  • Cornelia Petty Jerman, North Carolina suffragist
  • Nell Battle Lewis
  • Basil Charles Manly, Confederate Major of Artillery and Mayor of Raleigh.
  • Augustus S. Merrimon
  • Dan K. Moore
  • Leonidas L. Polk
  • Edwin G. Reade
  • Willis Smith
  • David L. Swain
  • Thomas F. Toon
  • Berrian Kinnard Upshaw, first husband of Margaret Mitchell and possible inspiration for the character Rhett Butler.
  • Jim Valvano
  • Carle Augustus Woodruff
  • Jonathan Worth

    • References

    Historic Oakwood Cemetery Wikipedia
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