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Burials at the site began as early as 1837, when the parcel operated as a small family burying ground on land owned by Hugh C. Smith. After Smith’s death his executor sold the land in two parcels in September 1854 — one of approximately twenty-one acres and a smaller adjoining tract of about 1.7 acres — to a group of thirty Alexandrians who chartered the property as a community cemetery in 1856. That charter is the cemetery’s effective founding date and the year it carries today. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia — Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia) Website

Ivy Hill is one of the smaller Virginia entrants in the broader American rural-cemetery movement that began with Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston in 1831, continued at Laurel Hill in Philadelphia (1836) and Green-Wood in Brooklyn (1838), and reshaped American urban burial from churchyards to landscaped parks designed for contemplation as much as for interment. The twenty-two-acre Ivy Hill plan — laid out in the late 1850s — follows the rural-cemetery convention: winding paths, mature plantings, individual family plots set within a deliberately naturalistic landscape. The cemetery retains roughly that nineteenth-century landscape character today and is now also recognized for rare and protected flora and fauna established over its long maturation. ^[2] Source 2 Ivy Hill Cemetery — institutional pages Website

The cemetery sits on the upper-King-Street corridor in Alexandria’s Rosemont neighborhood, two and a half blocks west of Janney’s Lane and a few blocks west of the The Harold Yates family Family The Harold Yates family Two-generation Alexandria pediatric medical family. Patriarch (1915–1995) ran a long Alexandria pediatric practice from his 1941 UVA Med graduation through the 1980s; his son … - and The John Yates family Family The John Yates family Three-generation Alexandria business family. Patriarch (Navy veteran; deceased 1989) bought his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977. His sons … -era addresses. Approximately ten thousand interments occupy the grounds today.

The cemetery’s most internationally recognized interment is Wernher von Braun Person Wernher von Braun b. 1912 · d. 1977 German-American rocket engineer; technical lead of Nazi Germany's V-2 program and later director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where he led development of the Saturn V … (1912–1977), the German- American rocket engineer who led the team that designed Nazi Germany’s V-2 ballistic missile during the Second World War, then after his transfer to the United States under Operation Paperclip rose to become director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he led development of the Saturn V launch vehicle that carried the Apollo crews to the moon. Von Braun lived at 816 Vicar Lane Place 816 Vicar Lane Cul-de-sac suburban house off Quaker Lane that was the residence of from his 1970 NASA retirement until his death at Alexandria Hospital on June 16, 1977. in Alexandria’s Cul-de-sac suburban Quaker Lane area in the years before his 1977 death from pancreatic cancer; his burial at Ivy Hill closes the corridor’s Vicar-Lane-to-rural-cemetery arc — a single Alexandrian’s professional life ending the same neighborhood walk it occupied. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia — Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia) Website

Other notable interments include the modernist architect Charles M. Goodman (designer of Hollin Hills and Wright- Usonian-adjacent Northern Virginia work — a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright Person Frank Lloyd Wright b. 1867 · d. 1959 American architect, founder of the Prairie and Usonian schools. Designed the Pope-Leighey House (1940), now relocated to the parcel in Alexandria. , whose 9000 Richmond Highway Place 9000 Richmond Highway Usonian house built in 1940 for journalist Loren Pope; relocated to the parcel in 1964 to escape Interstate 66 construction at its original Falls Church site. sits on the Woodlawn parcel south of the city); the Confederate spy and J.E.B. Stuart scout Frank Stringfellow; Sidney Smith Lee, Confederate States Navy captain and brother of Robert E. Lee Person Robert E. Lee b. 1807 · d. 1870 United States Army officer who spent much of his childhood in Alexandria at the house on Oronoco Street before his West Point appointment, and who later commanded Confederate … ; Burton Harrison, private secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the railroad president Fairfax Harrison (Southern Railway); the labor-rights activist Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1959), CIO organizer in the South — a contemporary of John L. Lewis Person John L. Lewis b. 1880 · d. 1969 President of the United Mine Workers of America (1920-1960) and founding president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Owned the from 1937 until his death in 1969. , the United Mine Workers president who himself lived in Alexandria at 614 Oronoco Street Place 614 Oronoco Street Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family members through the nineteenth century … ; the Taos Society of Artists painter Catharine Carter Critcher; her father the Congressman John Critcher; the U.S. federal judge Albert Vickers Bryan; the Truman military aide Harry H. Vaughan; Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (a direct descendant of the colonial Fairfax line); the Treaty-of-Guadalupe-Hidalgo negotiator Nicholas Trist; and Alexandria’s first female city manager Vola Lawson. ^[3] Source 3 Gravestone Stories — Notable Burials at Ivy Hill Website ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia — Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia) Website

The cemetery also holds Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … (1829–1919), co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … in 1852 and a Confederate colonel of the 17th Virginia Infantry who surrendered the remnant of Corse’s Brigade at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Herbert spent the postwar half-century at Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Place Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork Fort Worth (1861-1865), and finally the … , the Seminary Hill estate he rebuilt directly atop the powder magazine of the Civil War’s Fort Worth — a quiet inheritance closing his Alexandrian life with his burial alongside his wife Alice Gregory Herbert. ^[4] Source 4 DAC, 'Arthur Herbert — Muckross,' 2020 Website ^[5] Source 5 Find A Grave — Arthur Herbert (memorial 18797271) Website

Ivy Hill also holds Mary Miller Arnold Person Mary Miller Arnold b. 1938 · d. 2006 United States Senate Doorkeeper Supervisor for twenty-one years and a leader in the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria. Memphis State University alumna, born in Jonesboro, … (1938–2006), a twenty-one-year U.S. Senate Doorkeeper Supervisor and leader in the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, and her husband Edwin L. Arnold Sr. Person Edwin L. Arnold Sr. b. 1929 · d. 2012 United States Marine Corps Lieutenant and Korean War combat veteran; spent thirty-eight-plus years at the U.S. Veterans Administration / Department of Veterans Affairs, including … (1929–2012), a USMC Korean War veteran whose thirty-eight-plus-year career at the Veterans Administration included service as the agency’s Senate Liaison and instrumental work on the 1988–1989 elevation of the VA to a Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. Both are the namesakes of the contemporary Alexandria nonprofit AVSOPS.org Nonprofit AVSOPS.org Virginia 501(c)(3) (pending) maintaining an open-data public directory of more than fifteen thousand veterans service organizations and patriotic societies across all fifty states. … , an open-data directory of more than fifteen thousand veterans service organizations. ^[6] Source 6 AVSOPS.org — Mary and Ed Arnold memorial Website

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, formally recognizing the rural-cemetery landscape plan and the more than a century and a half of Alexandria biographical history its grounds preserve. ^[7] Source 7 NRHP listing — Ivy Hill Cemetery (2025) Government record