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Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District

Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States.

Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District
Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States. The district is a 172-acre (70 ha) site located on a series of tree shaded and landscaped hills overlooking central Charleston and includes the following cemeteries: Spring Hill Cemetery, Mountain View Cemetery, B'nai Israel Cemetery, Lowenstein Cemetery, and Mount Olivet Cemetery. It is West Virginia's largest cemetery complex. The district features Spring Hill Mausoleum, a stone faced reinforced concrete structure constructed in 1910.

Notable graves throughout the cemetery include the following:George W. Atkinson, 10th Governor of West Virginia

Samuel B. Avis, Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1915

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    West Virginia State Capitol

    The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, the building was designed by Cass Gilbert and dedicated in 1932.

    1.9 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of West Virginia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Charleston

    The University of Charleston is a private university in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Founded in 1888, it also has a satellite campus in Beckley, West Virginia.

    2.2 km · university in Charleston, West Virginia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

    The Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is a cathedral church and a minor basilica located in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Along with the Cathedral of St.

    1.7 km · church in West Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Charleston Municipal Auditorium

    The Charleston Municipal Auditorium is a public auditorium in Charleston, West Virginia, and is part of the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. It opened on November 4, 1939, and was closed until further notice in February 2024.

    2.1 km · multi-purpose hall in Charleston, West Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Craik-Patton House

    Craik-Patton House is a historic home and public museum located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built by James Craik and his wife, Juliet Shrewsbury, in 1834 in the Greek Revival style.

    3.5 km · building in West Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Charleston Civic Center

    The Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center is a municipal event complex located in downtown Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Opened in 1959, the facility includes a multi-purpose coliseum, a theater, the Charleston Municipal Auditorium, and a convention center.

    2.3 km · building in West Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Charleston Town Center

    Charleston Town Center is an enclosed shopping mall in downtown Charleston, West Virginia. One of the largest enclosed malls in the United States to be located in a downtown shopping district, it has comprised more than 130 tenants on two levels at its peak, in addition to food court on a partial third level.

    2 km · shopping mall in Charleston, West Virginia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Laidley-Summers-Quarrier House

    Laidley-Summers-Quarrier House, also known as Glenwood, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a two-story gable roofed dwelling in the Greek Revival style and built in 1852.

    3.5 km · historic house in West Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Spring Hill Cemetery

    Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States. The district is a 172-acre site located on a series of tree shaded and landscaped hills overlooking central Charleston and includes the following cemeteries: Spring Hill Cemetery, Mountain View Cemetery, B'nai Israel Cemetery, Lowenstein Cemetery, and Mount Olivet Cemetery.

    200 m · cemetery in Charleston, West Virginia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    West Virginia State Museum

    The West Virginia State Museum, formerly the West Virginia Science and Culture Center, is a history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology and geology museum at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia. It was founded in 1890 and is considered a major museum in the state by The Statesman's Yearbook.

    1.7 km · Museum in Charleston, West Virginia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District

Airports
John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 213 km · Pittsburgh (PIT), 266 km · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 276 km
Stations
West Virginia International Yeager Airport, 3.2 km
  • Columbus → Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · $21–28
  • Pittsburgh → Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District
    271 km · quickest by road, 5h 27m · $29–40
  • Cincinnati / Covington → Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District
    263 km · quickest by road, 5h 13m · $25–35
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Not yet researched

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundvia Ferry St and Thayer St, as well as to Loudon Heights Rd.

From Wikivoyage: Charleston (West Virginia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    770 km
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    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,241 km
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    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,284 km
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    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,375 km
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    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,515 km

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