Finnell-Gardner Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia

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Coordinates: 38.88697, -78.16303
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Southeast of Front Royal towards Chester Gap, Highway 522 (Remount Road). The Conservation and Research Center of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park operates here. The facility maintains the graveyard, which is surrounded by a stone wall constructed in 1914. The graveyard is just to the west of the intersection of Research Drive and Cottage Lane. Public access is limited to the workweek. Visitors must sign in at the main office.

This old family graveyard was once part of Reuben Ellis Finnell's farm "Clover Hill." Reuben Ellis' father, Reuben Finnell (1750-1823), Revolutionary War soldier and Methodist minister, is said to be buried here; several field stones show unmarked graves, and his is supposed to be one of them. The U.S. Government purchased Clover Hill before the First World War. It functioned first as a cavalry remount station and then a quartermaster depot.