Brooke Cemetery
Brooke Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was founded in 1857. It includes several notable examples of funerary art in its headstones, above ground crypts, and mausolea dating to the 19th and early 20th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Wellsburg, United States of America
- Also known as: “Brooke County Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wellsburg Wharf and Brooke High School.
Wellsburg Wharf
Park
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Wellsburg Wharf is a historic wharf located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. The public wharf was built in 1836 on the Ohio River. The site consists of remains of the wharf and the foundations of two warehouses. Wellsburg Wharf is situated 1½ miles south of Brooke Cemetery.
Brooke High School
School
Photo: Anicoley123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brooke High School is a public high school in Wellsburg, West Virginia, United States. It is the only high school in the Brooke County School District. Brooke High School is situated 1½ miles northeast of Brooke Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rabbit Hill and Wellsburg.
Rabbit Hill
Hamlet
Rabbit Hill is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States.
Wellsburg
Town
Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY 2.0.
Wellsburg is a city in and the county seat of Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census recorded a population of 2,455. It is a part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area.
Georges Run
Hamlet
Georges Run is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Brooke Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Brooke, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.28757° or 40° 17′ 15″ northLongitude
-80.60507° or 80° 36′ 18″ westElevation
801 feet (244 metres)Open location code
86GX79QV+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 356527760OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=grave_yard
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