Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston, South Carolina)


Magnolia Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Vanderhorst Mausoleum
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Nearest city	Charleston, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°49′6″N 79°56′32″W / 32.81833°N 79.94222°W / 32.81833; -79.94222Coordinates: 32°49′6″N 79°56′32″W / 32.81833°N 79.94222°W / 32.81833; -79.94222
Area	92 acres (37 ha)
Built	1850
Architect	Edward C. Jones
NRHP Reference #	78002502^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 24, 1978

Magnolia Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.^[2]^[3] It was dedicated in 1850; Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address.^[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.^[1]

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^[5]
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.^[6]

Gallery

Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina
Wm B Smith Monument, one of the most unusual and striking crypts at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina
Unknown Confederate States Navy Markers
H.L. Hunley Memorial Marker

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ McNulty, Kappy; Nenie Dixon; Elias B. Bull (August 23, 1976). "Magnolia Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
↑ "Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston County (off U.S. Hwy. 52, Charleston vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
↑ Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
↑ "John D. Newcomer Found Dead at 64". Charleston News & Courier. December 31, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
↑ CWGC Cemetery Report, details obtained from Casualty Record.

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