Ivy Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in the Rosemont Historic District of the North Ridge neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Burials began at the site in 1837, when it was a family cemetery, and it received a charter as a community cemetery in 1856. The adjoining residential neighborhood was developed beginning in 1908 as a streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C., as trolley lines of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon railway extended from Alexandria's nearby Union Station (opened 1905). The cemetery is now known for its rare and protected flora and fauna. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
Notable burials Judge Albert Vickers Bryan Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Catharine Carter Critcher, painter, daughter of John CritcherIvy Hill Cemetery Company Congressman John Critcher Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron Charles M. Goodman, acclaimed modernist architect Fairfax Harrison, railroad magnate Vola Lawson, first female city manager of Alexandria Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1959), labor activist and suffragist Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, infamous Confederate spy Nicholas TristSec. B, lot 42, site 5, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 47683-47684). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Wernher von Braun, aerospace engineer and space flight pioneerIvy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 48952). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to President Harry S. Truman Amelita WardSec. 31, lot 8, site 1, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 49545). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Descendants of the Washington family, including W. Selden Washington
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