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Incorporated in 1854, by the Virginia General Assembly, the Cemetery Company established Green Hill Cemetery on 15 acres atop a hill that offers a rare view of Martinsburg and North Mountain to the west.
Native son, David Hunter Strother, with the help of Surveyor John Kearfolt laid out Green Hill Cemetery according to a design he had seen in France, while studying art in Paris.
Strother was a prominent mid-19th-century illustrator and writer and was widely published under the pen name “Porte Crayon.” He was the nation’s sole reporter for John Brown’s treason trial in nearby Charles Town, writing and sketching for Harpers Weekly.
Strother and his father owned the famed Berkeley Springs Hotel where Strother spent his summers. He served as an adjutant general during the Civil War and was later appointed as Consul to Mexico. He is among the several notable persons buried in the cemetery.
One of the earliest Black cemeteries in the South is located on the northeast side of the site.
Location: 486 East Burke Street, Martinsburg
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