Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: garden cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States
- Also known as: “Rock Creek Church Cemetery”, “Rock Creek Church Yard”, “Rock Creek Church Yard & Cemetery”, “Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery”, “St Paul’s Rock Creek Cemetery”, and “St. Paul’s Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Address: Rock Creek Church Road Northwest, Washington, DC 20010
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Pauls Episcopal Church and Adams Memorial.
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church
Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, is a historic Episcopal church located on Rock Creek Church Road, NW, in Washington, D.C., United States. Saint Pauls Episcopal Church is situated 480 feet south of Rock Creek Cemetery.
Adams Memorial
Memorial
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Adams Memorial is situated 720 feet southeast of Rock Creek Cemetery.
United States Soldiers‘ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery
Cemetery
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United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located next to the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. It is one of only two national cemeteries administered by the Department of the Army, the other being Arlington National Cemetery. United States Soldiers‘ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery is situated 1,700 feet southeast of Rock Creek Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Totten and Petworth.
Fort Totten
Suburb
Fort Totten is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Fort Totten is located between Riggs Road N.E. to the north, Bates Rd N.E, Allison Street N.E, and the southern end of Fort Totten Park to the south, the Washington Metro Red Line tracks to the east, and North Capitol Street NW to the west.
Petworth
Neighborhood
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Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.
Rock Creek Cemetery
- Categories: rural cemetery and burial
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.9482° or 38° 56′ 54″ northLongitude
-77.01261° or 77° 0′ 45″ westElevation
292 feet (89 metres)Open location code
87C4WXXP+7XOpenStreetMap ID
way 43973518OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rock Creek Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة روك كريك”
- Armenian: “Ռոք Քրիք գերեզմանատուն”
- Belarusian: “Могілкі Рок Крык”
- Catalan: “Cementiri de Rock Creek”
- Chinese: “岩溪公墓”
- Chinese: “岩溪墓地”
- Czech: “hřbitov Rock Creek”
- Danish: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Dutch: “Rock Creek begraafplaats”
- Dutch: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- French: “cimetière Rock Creek”
- French: “Cimetière Rock Creek”
- Georgian: “როკ კრიკის სასაფლაო”
- German: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות רוק קריק”
- Hungarian: “Rock Creek Temető”
- Italian: “cimitero di Rock Creek”
- Italian: “Cimitero di Rock Creek”
- Japanese: “ロッククリーク墓地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério Rock Creek”
- Russian: “Каменнорецкое кладбище”
- Russian: “Кладбище Рок Крик”
- Russian: “кладбище Рок-Крик”
- Russian: “Рок Крик”
- Russian: “Рок-Крик”
- Slovenian: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Rock Creek”
- Swedish: “Rock Creek Cemetery”
- Ukrainian: “Кладовище Рок Крік, Кладовище Рок-Крік, Цвинтар Рок Крік”
- Ukrainian: “Цвинтар Рок-Крік”
- Urdu: “راک کریک قبرستان”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Rock Creek”
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