Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston, South Carolina)

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NRHP Reference # 78002502 Year built 1850 Nearest city Charleston		Area 37 ha Added to NRHP 24 March 1978 Architect Edward C. Jones

Burials Horace Lawson Hunley, Robert Rhett, William Aiken, Jr. Similar H L Hunley, Joseph Manigault House, McLeod Plantation, Nathaniel Russell House, Magnolia Plantation and Gard

Magnolia Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. It was dedicated in 1850; Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.

Notable interments

William Aiken, Jr. (1806–1887), US Congressman, South Carolina Governor

John Bennett (1865–1956), author and illustrator

Thomas Bennett, Jr. (1781–1865), Governor of South Carolina

William H. Brawley (1841–1916), U.S. Representative from South Carolina and United States federal judge

Langdon Cheves (1776–1857), American politician and a president of the Second Bank of the United States

James Conner (general) (1829–1883), Confederate general in the American Civil War

George E. Dixon (1837–1864), Commander of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (1911–2001), author

William J. Grayson (1788–1863), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Wilson Godfrey Harvey (1866–1932), Governor of South Carolina

Daniel Elliott Huger (1779–1854), US Senator from South Carolina

Horace Lawson Hunley (1823–1863), Confederate marine engineer, developer of early submarines

Micah Jenkins (1835–1864), Confederate general

Mitchell Campbell King (1815–1901), physician

George Swinton Legaré (1869–1913), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Hugh S. Legaré (1797–1843), 16th U.S. Attorney General

William Turner Logan (1874–1941), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813–1893), South Carolina Governor

Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899–1954), US Senator, South Carolina Governor

John Darlington Newcomer (1867–1931), American architect

Josephine Pinckney (1895–1957), novelist and poet

St. Julien Ravenel (1819–1882), physician and chemist

Robert Rhett (1869–1913), U.S. Representative and Senator from South Carolina

Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887), Confederate general

William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), poet, novelist and historian

Charles Henry Simonton (1829–1904), Confederate Colonel and federal judge on 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

Julius Waties Waring (1880–1968), United States federal judge linked to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Richard Smith Whaley (1874–1951), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

British war graves of five Royal Navy and Merchant Navy personnel of World War II.

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