Payne Cemetery

Payne's Cemetery was a 13-acre cemetery located in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1851 as a privately owned secular cemetery open to the public, but it primarily served the city's African American community.

Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Washington, D.C
Also known as: “Payne’s Cemetery” and “Paynes Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Woodlawn Cemetery and District of Columbia Public Library-Capitol View Neighborhood Branch.

Woodlawn Cemetery

Cemetery

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Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The 22.5-acre cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans. Woodlawn Cemetery is situated 1,200 feet west of Payne Cemetery.

District of Columbia Public Library-Capitol View Neighborhood Branch

Library

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The Capitol View Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was opened to the public on January 23, 1965, after 10 years of advocacy by the Capitol View community. District of Columbia Public Library-Capitol View Neighborhood Branch is situated 2,000 feet northeast of Payne Cemetery.

Benning Road Metro Station

Metro station

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Benning Road station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Benning neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on November 22, 1980, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Benning Road Metro Station is situated 2,400 feet northwest of Payne Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Civic Betterment and Benning.

Civic Betterment

Neighborhood

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Civic Betterment is a small neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., on the border of Prince George's County, Maryland. It is triangular in area, bounded by:…

Benning

Neighborhood

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Benning is a residential neighborhood located in Ward 7 of Northeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by East Capitol Street to the south, Minnesota Avenue to the west, and Benning Road on the north and east.

Deanwood

Neighborhood

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Deanwood is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., bounded by Eastern Avenue to the northeast, Kenilworth Avenue to the northwest, Division Avenue to the southeast, and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue to the south.

Payne Cemetery

Category: burial
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.88456° or 38° 53′ 4″ north

Longitude

-76.93386° or 76° 56′ 2″ west

Elevation

157 feet (48 metres)

Open location code

87C5V3M8+RF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358955874

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=grave_yard

GeoNames ID

4139969

Wikidata ID

Q18152033

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