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  • Dog Day on the Hill with Fulcrum Residential

    Grab your leash and your four-legged friend and join us for a paw-sitively fun evening at Congressional Cemetery. 🐶 What's in Store: Dog Contests – Cutest face? Best trick? Funniest walk? [...]

  • Introductory Tour

    Introductory Tour
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Purchase Tickets Here! Join us for a guided introductory tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present [...]

    $5

  • Closed to Dogs

    Closed to Dogs
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Congressional Cemetery is closed to all dogs each Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for family grave site visits as well as during: Funerals  |  Private & community events  |  Federal [...]

  • Private Funeral Service

    To provide privacy for the family, the cemetery will be closed to all dogs and visitors for the duration of our funeral proceedings. Thank You, HCC

  • Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery

    Death Cafe
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    We welcome you to join us at one of our monthly Death Cafes at Historic Congressional Cemetery. As an active burial ground, Historic Congressional Cemetery is well acquainted with death, [...]

  • Introductory Tour

    Introductory Tour
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Purchase Tickets Here! Join us for a guided introductory tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present [...]

    $5

  • Closed to Dogs

    Closed to Dogs
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Congressional Cemetery is closed to all dogs each Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for family grave site visits as well as during: Funerals  |  Private & community events  |  Federal [...]

  • Creative Crypt

    Creative Crypt
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Are you working on a creative project? Need motivation, feedback, or just want to meet other creative people? Then join us in Congressional Cemetery's chapel for Creative Crypt! The Creative [...]

  • Annual Honey Sale

    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Our Annual Honey Sale returns Sunday, September 6th from 11 AM to 1 PM at the main gates. Enjoy a late-summer morning surrounded by history and nature, and take home [...]

  • Introductory Tour

    Introductory Tour
    Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    Purchase Tickets Here! Join us for a guided introductory tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present [...]

    $5

  • Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (In Person)

    Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

    An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The most fatal virus known to science, rabies — a disease that spreads avidly from [...]