DC -- Ivy City -- Mt Olivet Cemetery -- After Gallaudet student vandalism:
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- Description of Pictures: One night, several hundred headstones were pushed over in an act of vandalism. Later, it was learned that a group of kids from Gallaudet University had gone there to create some havoc. They caused several hundred thousand dollars in damage.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- MOLIV_990131_01.JPG: Henry Wirz. He was the Confederate captain in charge of Andersonville prison who was executed after the war. The stone here was placed by sympathizers: "Captain Henry Wirz, C. Confederate hero, martyr. Died Nov 10 1865."
- Wikipedia Description: Mount Olivet Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Olivet Cemetery is an historic rural cemetery located at 1300 Bladensburg Road, NE in Washington, D.C. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The largest Catholic burial ground in the District of Columbia, it was one of the first in the city to be racially integrated.
About the cemetery
On June 5, 1852, the Council of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia passed a local ordinance that barred the creation of new cemeteries anywhere within Georgetown or the area bounded by Boundary Street (northwest and northeast), 15th Street (east), East Capitol Street, the Anacostia River, the Potomac River, and Rock Creek. Existing Catholic cemeteries at St. Matthew's Church, St. Patrick Catholic Church, and St. Peter Catholic Church were nearly full. A number of new cemeteries were therefore established in the "rural" areas in and around Washington: Columbian Harmony Cemetery in D.C.; Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland; Glenwood Cemetery in D.C.; and Woodlawn Cemetery in D.C. Father Charles I. White, the 51-year-old priest who had led St. St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church since 1857, was the individual most responsible for the creation of Mt. Olivet.
The cemetery was created in 1858. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, which then covered the District of Columbia, purchased 40 acres (0.16 km2) of Fenwick Farm for the cemetery. A gray stone lodge was built to mark the entrance. Because the burial grounds at St. Matthew's, St. Patrick, and St. Peter churches were all full by that time, a number of graves were moved to the newly-established Mount Olivet in order to make room at the old cemeteries for new burials.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a rural cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts, was the model for Mount Olivet. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mount Olivet was known as one of the "big five" cemeteries in Washington, D.C.
From the start, Mount Olivet was racially integrated. Most cemeteries in the city were not. More than 7,700 African Americans were buried at Mount Olivet between 1800 and 1919 (about 7.6 percent of all African American burials in the city). In comparison, 24,000 Caucasians were buried there during the same period. Mount Olivet remains the only racially integrated cemetery from the 19th century to remain active as of 1989.
Notable interments
* Arizona John Burke (1842-1917), 19th century promoter, press agent, and manager who created the persona and managed the career of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
* Thomas H. Carter (1854–1911) U.S. Senator (R, Montana)
* James Hoban (c.1758–1831) Original Architect of the White House, Founding Master of Federal Lodge No. 1
* Jan Karski (1914–2000), Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University
* Watty Lee (1879–1936), Major League Baseball player
* John M. Lloyd (c.1835/36–1892), Lincoln assassination government witness
* William Matthews (1770–1854), seventh President of Georgetown College and first British-America-born Catholic priest
* Joseph McKenna (1843–1926), U.S. Supreme Court justice
* Izydor Modelski ((1889-1962)) Polish General and spy
* James Mooney (1861–1921), ethnologist, wrote about Cherokee myths and the Ghost Dance
* Pola Nirenska (1910-1992), Polish-American modern dancer and wife of Jan Karski
* Robert Emmet Odlum (1851–1885), first person to jump from Brooklyn Bridge
* Francisco Pizarro Martínez (1787–1840), Mexican ambassador to the United States (1837–1840).
* Thomas Devin Reilly (1823–1854), Irish nationalist involved in Young Ireland Movement
* Charlie Ross (1885–1950), Harry S. Truman's press secretary
* Mary Surratt (1823–1865), Lincoln assassination conspirator
* Henry Wirz (1822–1865), Confederate officer and convicted war criminal
* Robert Wynne (1851–1922), United States Postmaster General
* One British Commonwealth war grave of a Canadian Army soldier of World War II.
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