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Mount Hope Cemetery (Raleigh, North Carolina)

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Built
  
c. 1872 (1872)

NRHP Reference #
  
08001292

Phone
  
+1 919-831-6548

Architect
  
Goodwin, C.A.; et al.

Area
  
12 ha

Added to NRHP
  
8 January 2009

Mount Hope Cemetery (Raleigh, North Carolina)

Location
  
1100 Fayetteville St., Raleigh, North Carolina

Address
  
120 Prospect Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA

Similar
  
Historic Oakwood, Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh National Cemetery, Nc Cemetery Commissi, Oberlin Cemetery

Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It was established about 1872. The approximate total number of monuments in the cemetery is 1,454, although interment records list over 7,000 individuals. Notable contributing resources include the W. H. Matthews (1828-1902) mausoleum, the front entrance gates and gate posts (c. 1930s), and the garden cemetery landscape design.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

Mount Hope Cemetery (Raleigh, North Carolina) Wikipedia