Prospect Hill Cemetery
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
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Prospect Hill Cemetery is located in Brattleboro, Vermont, overlooking the Connecticut River Valley. The first interment took place in 1796, when it was known as the "Old Village Burying Ground." Additional parcels of land were amassed piecemeal up to 1869. This cemetery is the final resting place of Brattleboro's wealthiest citizens, including the 19th-century robber baron Col. James Fisk.
The soldiers' lot is located in the southern portion of the Prospect Hill Cemetery. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Vermont 1st and 2nd brigades were organized at the military campground at Brattleboro. After the brigades mustered out, the campground was transformed into a hospital for soldiers from Vermont and the surrounding states who came north from the front to convalesce. Soldiers who died in the hospital were originally buried in the barracks cemetery. In 1869, the federal government purchased a 50-foot by-30 foot lot in Prospect Hill Cemetery for $100, and subsequently reburied the interments from the barracks cemetery there.
Prospect Hill Cemetery is located in Brattleboro, Vermont, overlooking the Connecticut River Valley. The first interment took place in 1796, when it was known as the "Old Village Burying Ground." Additional parcels of land were amassed piecemeal up to 1869. This cemetery is the final resting place of Brattleboro's wealthiest citizens, including the 19th-century robber baron Col. James Fisk.
The soldiers' lot is located in the southern portion of the Prospect Hill Cemetery. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Vermont 1st and 2nd brigades were organized at the military campground at Brattleboro. After the brigades mustered out, the campground was transformed into a hospital for soldiers from Vermont and the surrounding states who came north from the front to convalesce. Soldiers who died in the hospital were originally buried in the barracks cemetery. In 1869, the federal government purchased a 50-foot by-30 foot lot in Prospect Hill Cemetery for $100, and subsequently reburied the interments from the barracks cemetery there.
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
- Total memorials3k+
- Percent photographed79%
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed78%
- Percent with GPS9%
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
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Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
- Total memorials1
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS100%
- Added: 22 Jul 2001
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 641557
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