Congressional Cemetery, cenotaph marking grave where John Quincy Adams was once buried, taken from southwest, April 1969
This file appears in: Congressional Cemetery Historic District
Credit: Leo J. Schmittel, NCPC
This file appears in: Congressional Cemetery Historic District
Congressional Cemetery Historic District
The original four and one-half acre tract of Congressional Cemetery was purchased from the Government for $200 on April 4, 1807 as a private burial ground. On March 30, 1812, several years after Christ Church was built, Ingle, one of the buyers,…