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Wilkes Street
Cluster of twelve adjacent burial grounds stretching across the 1100 block of Wilkes Street, including Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, Quaker, Black Methodist (Bethel), Hebrew (Beth El), Catholic, and private cemeteries laid out from c.1809 onward as the city outgrew its early-republic churchyards.
- 1809approx
- Cemetery complex
- Extant
- Old and Historic Alexandria District
Place narrative
By the 1800s Alexandria’s colonial-era churchyards inside the city grid — Christ Church, Old Presbyterian Meeting House, the Quaker burial yard — were full. Beginning in 1809 the city’s congregations began acquiring adjacent parcels along Wilkes Street west of the historic district to lay out new burial grounds. Twelve such cemeteries operated across the 1100 block and adjoining streets: Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, Quaker, Bethel (Black Methodist), Beth El Hebrew (founded 1859, the oldest Jewish cemetery in Virginia), St. Mary’s Catholic, and several private family lots. [1] Office of Historic Alexandria walking-tour materials Website
The complex retains its nineteenth-century landscape and headstone plantings substantially intact and is a contributing element of the Old and Historic Alexandria District. Each constituent cemetery is administered by its parent congregation or a successor trust.
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Wilkes Street
Named for John Wilkes — English politician and Patriot ally, c. 1796.
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Office of Historic Alexandria, walking-tour and historic-marker brochures, accessed 2026-05-01.
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