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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1850/00/00 Edward C Jones and Francis D Lee Architect Charles Fraser delivers the dedication address for the Magnolia Cemetery. The original Receiving Tomb survives along with the superintendent's office (c 1805), three 1890s structures, five mausoleums and many examples of cemetery art.
1863/11/08 Horace Lawson Hunley In Memoriam Horace L Hunley is buried with full military honors at Hunley Circle in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.
1863/11/09 Seven H L HUNLEY seaman are buried with full military honors at Hunley Circle in Magnolia Cemetery. The dead are Thomas S Parks, Henry Beard, R Brookbanks, John Marshall, Charles McHugh, Joseph Patterson and Charles L Sprague. H L HUNLEY (submarine)
1865/08/25 Isabella Johannes Middleton Huger Died Isabella Johannes Middleton Huger passes away. She is buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.
1887/09/06 William Aiken Jr Died William Aiken Jr dies in Flat Rock, North Carolina. He is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
1894/00/00 Edward C Jones Architect Cotton factor, William Burroughs Smith, the richest man in Charleston, died at his residence on Broad St, 23 June 1892. His remains rested 30 months in the Magnolia Cemetery Receiving Tomb, while his mausoleum is built by the Charleston Granite Works.
1919/01/25 Eliza Middleton Huger Smith Died Eliza Middleton Huger Smith dies in Charleston, South Carolina. She is buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
1958/02/03 Alice Ravenel Huger Smith Died Alice Ravenel Huger Smith dies in Charleston, South Carolina. She is buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
2000/03/25 After discovery under Johnson Hagood Stadium, the remains of the HUNLEY crew who drowned on August 1836 are buried at Hunley Circle in Magnolia Cemetery. The five seaman were Michael Cane, Nicholas Davis, Frank Doyle, John Kelly and Absolum Williams. H L HUNLEY (submarine)
2004/04/17 George E Dixon, CSA In Memoriam Remains of George Dixon and the HUNLEY's last crewmen are buried in Magnolia Cemetery. His home Lodge, now the Mobile-McCormick Lodge No 40, and the Masonic Grand Lodges of Alabama and South Carolina participated in the military and Masonic funeral rites. H L HUNLEY (submarine) H L HUNLEY's Final Mission
2004/04/17 Tens of thousands of people attend the burial of the remains of the H L HUNLEY's last crew - Arnold Becker, Corporal JF Carlsen, Frank Collins, C Lumpkin, Mr Miller, James A Wicks and Joseph Ridgaway - in Magnolia Cemetery. H L HUNLEY (submarine) H L HUNLEY's Final Mission

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Particulars for Magnolia Cemetery:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Historic Use Cemetery
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 24th March 1978

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Magnolia Cemetery
Registry Address: N of Charleston off U.S. 52
Registry Number: 78002502
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Jones,Edward C.
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 92
Contributing Buildings: 4
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 6
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Art, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Period of Significance: 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1850
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery
Current Function: Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery

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