Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC)
- Address: 30th and R Streets NW
- Neighborhood of Georgetown in Washington, DC
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
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| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel |
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| Van Ness Mausoleum |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1848/06/07 | William Wilson Corcoran | Owner | William Corcoran buys Parrott's Woods, a 15-acre (6.1 ha) forest overlooking Rock Creek Park, from Lewis Washington, great-grandnephew of George Washington. | |||
| 1849/03/03 | William Wilson Corcoran | Benefactor | William Corcoran organizes a company to establish a cemetery. Chartered by an Act of Congress, Corcoran will spend over $100,000 in its beautification and provide in its charter that it should "be forever inalienable". | |||
| 1850/00/00 | George de la Roche | Landscape Architect | William Corcoran hires Captain George de la Roche to survey and lay out Oak Hill Cemetery. | |||
| 1862/02/21 | William Thomas Carroll Sr | Mourner | William Carroll provides his family's stone vault as temporarily resting place for William Lincoln's coffin. | Death of William Lincoln | ||
| 1862/02/22 | Abraham Lincoln | Grieving Father | A grieving Abraham Lincoln visits the remains of his son Willie in the Carroll Family' Vault. Possibly even opening the casket and holding his boy in his arms. | Death of William Lincoln | ||
| 1893/02/00 | Samuel Sprigg Carroll | In Memoriam | Comrades of the 2nd Army Corp and companions of the Loyal Legion escort Samuel S Carroll's coffin to Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, where he is buried with full military honors. |
| Particulars for Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, DC): | |
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| Historic Use | Cemetery |
| Historic Use | Graves, burials |
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