Washington Cemetery Historic District

Washington Cemetery is a burial ground on the east edge of Washington Court House, Ohio, laid out in 1856 on ten acres and enlarged in 1870 with a second tract of about thirteen acres. The first tract follows a rectangular plan with a mounded center and flagpole, while the second uses winding drives and rolling ground typical of the mid-19th-century "Rural" Cemetery movement. Together the tracts hold 9,386 burials and the cemetery's most important monuments and buildings, including Judy Chapel. Soldiers Rows set aside space for Union veterans, among them thirty-six members of the United States Colored Troops buried between 1887 and 1939. The centerpiece is a three-tiered cast iron and zinc fountain, added in 1892 and made by J. W. Fiske & Co. of New York. It was moved in 1904 and again after a restoration completed in the early 2000s, then rededicated in 2005. The district was listed for its landscape design and funerary features.