Indian Mound Cemetery

Indian Mound Cemetery

Indian Mound Cemetery is a cemetery located along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) on a bluff overlooking the South Branch Potomac River in Romney, West Virginia. The Indian Mound Cemetery Company was incorporated by an act of the Virginia General Assembly about 1859. The cemetery is centered around a Hopewellian mound. Indian Mound Cemetery is also the site of Fort Pearsall.

Indian Mound

The Indian mound measures seven feet high and about fifteen feet in diameter. It is the largest of the remaining mounds discovered in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The original owner of the mound gave the site to the city of Romney on the condition that the mound would not be disturbed. For this reason, the city has never allowed the mound to be excavated. The Smithsonian Institution suggests this mound might date between 500 and 1000 CE and that it was likely constructed by peoples of the Hopewell culture.

Monuments

*First Confederate Memorial
*Parsons Bell Tower

Notable people interred at Indian Mound Cemetery

*William Armstrong, U.S. Representative from Virginia
*John J. Cornwell, 15th Governor of West Virginia
*John J. Jacob, 4th Governor of West Virginia
*George Preston Marshall, owner and president of the Washington Redskins

Additional Images

ee also

*List of historic sites in Hampshire County, West Virginia
*Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery

External links

* [http://www.historichampshire.org/cems/indian.htm Indian Mound Cemetery Inventory]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/mound.htm WVGenWeb Indian Mound Cemetery Page]


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