Alsop Family Cemetery

According to Carolee Inskeep's "The Graveyard Shift," the Alsop family cemetery is "the only known Protestant burial ground within a Roman Catholic cemetery." This cemetery-within-a-cemetery contains stones whose style and typeface are typical of colonial-era grave markers. These burials pre-date all others at Calvary.

The Alsop Family Cemetery is where the massive Calvary Cemetery began. In the 1840s, before this land was purchased from the Alsop estate, what is today home to millions of burials was rich farm land.

The Alsop yard is located near the Calvary Veterans Memorial, built in 1866. It is also near a large monument to the 69th Regiment, among the Civil War's most famous Irish brigades.