Indian Mound Cemetery

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Indian Mound Cemetery is a cemetery located along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) on a bluff overlooking the South Branch Potomac River in Romney, West Virginia. The Indian Mound Cemetery Company was incorporated by an act of the Virginia General Assembly about 1859. The cemetery is centered around a Hopewellian mound. Indian Mound Cemetery is also the site of Fort Pearsall.

Contents

1 Indian Mound
2 Monuments
3 Famous Graves
4 Additional Images
5 External links

Indian Mound

The Indian mound measures seven feet high and about fifteen feet in diameter. It is the largest of the remaining mounds discovered in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The original owner of the mound gave the site to the town of Romney on the condition that the mound would not be disturbed. For this reason, the town has never allowed the mound to be excavated. The Smithsonian Institution suggests this mound might date between 500 and 1000 CE and that it was likely constructed by peoples of the Hopewell culture.

Monuments

First Confederate Memorial
Parsons Bell Tower

Famous Graves

Governor John Jeremiah Jacob
Governor John J. Cornwell

Additional Images

Image:RomneyIndianMound2.jpg|Another view of the Indian Mound Image:FirstConfederateMemorial.JPG|First Confederate Memorial Image:ParsonsBellTowerRomneyWV.jpg|Parsons Bell Tower Image:FortPearsallMarkerRomneyWV.jpg|Fort Pearsall Marker Image:IndianMoundCemeteryRomneyWVGraves.JPG|Graves at Indian Mound Cemetery Image:JohnJCornwellGravesite.jpg|Grave of Governor John J. Cornwell

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