Holy Rood Cemetery

Holy Rood Cemetery is a 1832 small cemetery on a hill in Glover Park north of Georgetown. It started out as a church's cemetery and is now owned by Georgetown University. The gate is open during...

I have been a taphophile for awhile It is not uncommon for me to go out some days strictly to go to an old cemetery to check out old tombstones of the deceased or to search out the gravesites of...

I can't believe how long it took me to walk up to this place. I'd passed it for years and years--I think I first noticed it when I was 12--but always in a car on my way down to Georgetown. I...

It's a small cemetery in the middle of the city. I walked through the hills of the cemetery wondering what lives the people beneath my feet had. This cemetery can be very eery at at dusk with...

This is the place that time forgot. Tombstones toppled over, lying face down in the grass. A giant cross broken in two--the polished wear on the fractured marble indicates that it's been this...