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Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is located at Webster Street and Rock Creek Church Road, NW, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Cemetery falls under the governance of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, seat of Rock Creek parish. It is adjacent to U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and adjacent church grounds were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable persons interred at Rock Creek Cemetery

See the cemetery's official web site for a map showing the sections indicated below.

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