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Private Funeral Service
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
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Private Memorial Service
Private Memorial Service
To provide privacy for the family, the cemetery will be closed to all dogs and visitors for the duration of our memorial proceedings. Thank You, HCC
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Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Death Cafe is a global movement to encourage discussion about the often-taboo subject of death. These are intimate informal gatherings where we discuss death while eating cake and drinking tea to remind us of comfort and sweetness even in difficult times.
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Mausoleums and Manuscripts: A Congressional Writer’s Group
Mausoleums and Manuscripts: A Congressional Writer’s Group
Is your motivation to write giving up the ghost? Have you lost your plot, or maybe you need to find one on the grounds? Are the muses as silent as [...]
Closed to Dogs
Closed to Dogs
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 [...]
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Founding the Federal City: Capital Connections Tour 2025
Founding the Federal City: Capital Connections Tour 2025
Established in 1800, Washington, D.C. was the fledgling capital of a fledgling nation. Built to house the seats of federal government, the nation's capital soon became a city in its [...]
$10
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If These Stones Could Talk
If These Stones Could Talk
Join us at Historic Congressional Cemetery for a special screening of If These Stones Could Talk, a powerful documentary that uncovers a long-buried chapter of Washington, DC’s history. The film tells [...]
Free
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Mostly Mothers: The Eternal Maternal Guided Tour
Mostly Mothers: The Eternal Maternal Guided Tour
This tour focuses exclusively on women for whom motherhood was central to their identities, their lives, and sometimes their deaths. Women celebrated on this tour may have been biological mothers, [...]
$10
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (In Person)
Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (In Person)
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the [...]
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Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the [...]
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Cinematery: Ghostbusters
Cinematery: Ghostbusters
Cinematery is back at Historic Congressional Cemetery, bringing classic monster related films to romp through the grounds with Mausoleums and Monsters! Kick off summer on Friday, May 23rd with the [...]
$10
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Closed to Dogs
Closed to Dogs
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 [...]
Only at Congressional Guided Introductory Tour
Only at Congressional Guided Introductory Tour
Join us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present day. Their stories are [...]
$5
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Sunday Stroll Guided Introductory Tour
Sunday Stroll Guided Introductory Tour
Join us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present day. Their stories are [...]
$5
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Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
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Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
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General Alexander Macomb Reinterment Ceremony: Commemorating Army, Navy, and Marine Corps 250
General Alexander Macomb Reinterment Ceremony: Commemorating Army, Navy, and Marine Corps 250
Join us for a ceremony and commemoration at Congressional Cemetery honoring the life and service of Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the United States Army from 1828 to [...]
Free
Closed to Dogs
Closed to Dogs
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 [...]
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
2 events,
Sunday Stroll Guided Introductory Tour
Sunday Stroll Guided Introductory Tour
Join us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present day. Their stories are [...]
$5
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
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Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
1 event,
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
3 events,
Closed to Dogs
Closed to Dogs
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 [...]
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Cemetery Speaker Series: Tobias Lear, with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Cemetery Speaker Series: Tobias Lear, with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Tobias Lear, circa the 1780s. Courtesy of New England Historical Society Sign up here! In his capacities as general, president, enslaver, and farmer, George Washington received support from many individuals [...]
$10
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
1 event,
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
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Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Death Cafe is a global movement to encourage discussion about the often-taboo subject of death. These are intimate informal gatherings where we discuss death while eating cake and drinking tea to remind us of comfort and sweetness even in difficult times.
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
2 events,
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Law Enforcement Torch Run
Law Enforcement Torch Run
Please join us for the 5K Run/Walk on Friday, October 3rd. Your support helps us enrich the lives of our wonderful athletes through sports training and competition, health screenings and [...]
$30
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
5 events,
Mausoleums and Manuscripts: A Congressional Writer’s Group
Mausoleums and Manuscripts: A Congressional Writer’s Group
Is your motivation to write giving up the ghost? Have you lost your plot, or maybe you need to find one on the grounds? Are the muses as silent as [...]
Closed to Dogs
Closed to Dogs
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 [...]
Only at Congressional Guided Introductory Tour
Only at Congressional Guided Introductory Tour
Join us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery! Over 67,000 people are interred at Congressional Cemetery, ranging from 1807 all the way until the present day. Their stories are [...]
$5
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Mary Shelley’s Monsters by Bob Bartlett
Congressional Cemetery is happy to welcome local playwright Bob Bartlett back to the cemetery after Lýkos Ánthrōpos last fall. Please see below for more information about the play from Bartlett [...]
$35
