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The “upper cemetery” sections at Rockville Cemetery are located on a hill.
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resting place for generations of notable citizens of Rockville oad and Montgomery County. Baltimore R Colonial Burying Yard Rural Cemetery Movement In 1728, the Anglican chapel in Georgetown became too In 1880, the Rockville Cemetery Association of Societal perception of death changed. Previously regarded inconvenient for frontier settlers, and the vestry resolved “that Montgomery County, Inc., composed of two members with horror and fear, Victorians saw death as a reunion as Mr. Thomas Williams was so kind as to offer two acres of from most local Protestant congregations, organized to with loved ones and God. Remembering the departed was land being part of land called Mill Land for the building of take responsibility for the cemetery. Judge Richard Johns combined with contemplating nature; the indulgence of a Chappell on that the vestry accepts the same.” In 1734, an Bowie donated five acres of land from his adjacent farm. grief was a transcendental experience. Markers had images assessment was made toward building a new church. Thomas No longer associated only with the Episcopal Church, the symbolizing a welcome to the afterlife, or pointing upward, Nicholls contracted in 1751 to build a fence around the burying cemetery became a community cemetery for the small town towards heaven. yard, “to measure 100 by 96 feet...” Charles Haymond was hired of Rockville. to “grub the year and to clear the trees all out of same and to In 1889, the Cemetery Association erected a caretaker’s Lawn Plan Cemetery fell the trees for 15 feet distant all around the laid railes.” The cottage, built by Rockville carpenter and undertaker The lower cemetery is on flat terrain and accessed by oldest gravestones in the cemetery were located within this Reuben Pumphrey. To meet the increased demand for a paved road north of the burial sites. The largest lots are yard. In 1752, long-time vestryman and planter John Harding space, Catherine Bowie, Judge Bowie’s widow, donated two adjacent to the drive, medium-sized lots in the center, and was buried here; his is the earliest extant marker. additional acres. The 1897 construction of Van Buren Street close to Baltimore Road. Robert Cridland of Philadelphia Colonial church yards were crowded, unsecured and required 16 burials from the Baptist Cemetery to be reinterred designed the lower cemetery in 1936. The gridded plots are regarded as weed-choked bone yards. Tombstones were at this out-of-town cemetery. orderly, stones stand in straight lines, and trees are grouped. typically upright tablets with scrolled pediments. John Harding’s The rural cemetery movement influenced the expansion The lack of topographical features emphasizes the stone features an hourglass and skull and crossbones, images of Rockville Cemetery. Mount Auburn Cemetery in unbroken lawn scenery while balancing the formal cemetery associated with finality and death. The ‘Chappell’ foundations Cambridge, Massachusetts, inspired cemetery planners to with the natural environment. are located near the Beall obelisk. Unmarked early burials may design landscapes that incorporated topographic complexity, Cridland believed that “drives and walks must be as direct be located here; burials in vaults under a church were common curvilinear roads, and picturesque vistas. as possible without being forced or twisted; they should at this time. Family plots dominate the upper cemetery, with large approach by means of straight lines or easy graceful curves.” After the American Revolution, Anglicans became markers, individual stones, and small boundary markers. This open lawn style has dominated cemetery design from the Episcopalians, and Christ Episcopal Church relocated to The cemetery’s terraces and curved roads are consistent with mid 20th century. The aesthetics of efficiency add order in the Washington Street in 1822. The vestry resolved that no the rural cemetery movement. Architectural influences — landscape in contrast to the variety of shapes and landforms more burials could take place without its consent. An 1873 Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and Victorian — add to the in the upper, older section. Rockville Cemetery is the product Montgomery County Sentinel editorial described the cemetery picturesque quality. With planned paths and carriage drives, of three centuries of planning and above all embraces peace as “not an inviting spot.” 19th century cemeteries were places to visit and reflect. and care for the remembrance of loved ones.