Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)

Ivy Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in the Rosemont Historic District of Alexandria, Virginia, United States.

Burials began at the site in 1811, when it was a family cemetery, and it received a charter as a community cemetery in 1856.

[1] The adjoining residential neighborhood was developed beginning in 1908 as a streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C., as trolley lines of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon railway extended from Alexandria's nearby Union Station (opened 1905).

[2] The cemetery is now known for its rare and protected flora and fauna.

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Ivy Hill Cemetery
The grave of Nazi rocket scientist and space exploration pioneer Wernher von Braun