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Brooke Cemetery

United States historic place


Brooke Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Brooke Cemetery, April 2011
40°17′15″N 80°36′17″W / 40.28750°N 80.60472°W / 40.28750; -80.60472
Area	23 acres (9.3 ha)
Built	1857
Architect	Chislett, John
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Modern Movement
MPS	Pleasant Avenue MRA
NRHP reference No.	86001070 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1986

Brooke Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was founded in 1857. It includes several notable examples of funerary art in its headstones, above ground crypts, and mausolea dating to the 19th and early 20th century. It was designed by John Chislett, who also designed Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

Noteworthy interments

Oliver Brown (1753–1846), Brooke County Militia and Revolutionary War officer
Isaac H. Duval (1824–1902), member of the United States House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, and a brigadier general in the Union Army
Patrick Gass (1771–1870), member of the Corps of Discovery^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Hiram J. Lester (September 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Brooke Cemetery" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
^ Patrick Gass, Discover Lewis & Clark