Bellevue Cemetery (Danville, Kentucky)

{{Short description|Historic cemetery}}

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|name = Bellevue Cemetery

|image = Bellevue Cemetery Gates.png

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|caption = Photo of Bellevue Cemetery Gates from the Historic American Landscapes Survey

|established = 1849

|country = United States

|location = 277 North First Street, Danville, Kentucky

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|type = Public

|owner = City of Danville, Kentucky

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Bellevue Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Danville, Kentucky.{{cite web |title=Cemetery |url=https://www.danvilleky.org/157/Cemetery |website=danvilleky.org |publisher=City of Danville, KY |access-date=17 March 2022}} It was established in the 1840s and was originally named Danville City Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Danville National Cemetery, KY |url=https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/danvilleky.asp |website=cem.va.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs |access-date=18 March 2022}}

The Danville National Cemetery is located within Bellevue Cemetery.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=98000591}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Danville National Cemetery|date=1998-05-29|publisher=United States Department of the Interior National Park Service}} The federal government purchased 18 lots within Bellevue Cemetery at the beginning of the American Civil War. The initial burials were Union soldiers who died at several Danville hospitals and subsequent burials included reinterments from other cemeteries. In 1876, the half-acre, rectangular plot in the northwest corner{{cite book |last1=Merritt |first1=Lindsay |title=Danville |date=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-0-7385-8767-7 |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gK4UN-ZXCToC&pg=PA121 |access-date=18 March 2022}} of Bellevue Cemetery was designated a national cemetery.

A lot in Bellevue Cemetery adjacent to the national cemetery contains the burial of 66 Confederate soldiers.

Bellevue Cemetery is managed by the City of Danville and is open to new burials.