Green Hill Cemetery

Established in 1854 by the Virginia General Assembly, Green Hill Cemetery is located atop a hill that offers a rare view of Martinsburg and North Mountain to the west.

David Hunter Strother, with the help of surveyor John Kearfolt, laid out the 15-acre cemetery in accordance with a design he had seen in France while studying art in Paris.

Strother, a Martinsburg native, 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 Harper’s 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 prominent people buried in the cemetery.

One of the earliest Black cemeteries in the South is located on the northeast side of the site.

If you go: Located at 486 East Burke Street, Martinsburg WV; More information: www.greenhillcemeterywv.org