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{{Short description|Historic site in Douglas County, Kansas}}
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Oak Hill Cemetery
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| image = Oak_Hill_Cemetery_graves.jpg
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| location = 1605 Oak Hill avenueAvenue, [[Lawrence, Kansas]]
| coordinates = {{coord|38|57|31|N|95|12|44|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Kansas
| area =
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| architecture =
| added = July 10, 2017<ref name="oakhillcemetery">{{cite web||url=https://www.kshs.org/natreg/natreg_listings/search/page:6/county:DG/records:all|accessdate=June 3, 2019 |title=Kansas Historical Society, State and National Registers of Historic Places}}</ref>
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| refnum = 100001287
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The '''Oak Hill Cemetery''' is a cemetery in [[Lawrence, Kansas]]. It was first constructed as a way for the people of Lawrence to remember those who were killed in [[Lawrence massacre|Quantrill's Raid]]. Several prominent Kansans are buried there, including [[Charles L. Robinson]], [[John P. Usher]], and[[Lucy Hobbs Taylor]], [[James Henry Lane (Indiana and Kansas)|James H. Lane]], and the grandparents of [[Langston Hughes]] - [[Charles Langston|Charles]] and [[Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston|Mary Langston]].<ref name="lawrenceks2">{{cite web|url=http://www.lawrenceks.org/lprd/parks/oakhillcemetery|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416071144/https://www.lawrenceks.org/lprd/parks/oakhillcemetery|website=LawrenceKS.org|archivedate=April 16, 2016|accessdate=June 14, 2016 |title = Oak Hill Cemetery}}</ref> It was built in 1866.
 
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Lawrence, Kansas]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Kansas]]
[[Category:Cemeteries in Kansas]]
[[Category:1866 establishments in Kansas]]
[[Category:Cemeteries established in the 1860s]]