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The Airmount Grave Shelter, also known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter is a brick grave shelter, or grave house, located in the Airmount Cemetery near Thomasville, Alabama. It is unusual in that it protects six graves instead of the more common one grave. The brick structure was built in 1853 by John Hope. It is built in a vernacular Greek Revival style with a gabled roof. The interior features a wooden vaulted ceiling. The shelter was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 2000 as a part of the Clarke County Multiple Property Submission.〔 ==Burials== The shelter contains the graves of the following individuals: *Archibald H. Hope, May 20, 1823 – September 26, 1850. *Margaret Hope, November 20, 1797 – May 1851. *Jane A. Hope, February 9, 1813 – November 22, 1852. *John Allison Hope, October 3, 1855 – October 25, 1856. *John Hope, October 3, 1791 – April 6, 1868. *Sarah Jane Powell Hope, July 7, 1829 – July 7, 1885. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airmount Grave Shelter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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