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{{Short description|Historic cemetery}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Magnolia Cemetery including Mobile National Cemetery
| image        = Magnolia Cemetery Mobile Alabama 7.JPG
| caption      = Neoclassical-style statuary monument for Eliza Bleecker.
| location     = Ann and Virginia Streets, [[Mobile, Alabama]], US
| coordinates  = {{coord|30|40|32|N|88|03|53|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}<!-- GNIS for Magnolia used -->
| built        = 1836
| architecture = Funerary
| added        = June 13, 1986
| refnum       = 86003757<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a|dateform=mdy}}</ref><ref name="nrhp">{{cite web|title=Alabama – Mobile County| work=Nationalhistoricalregister.com|
url=http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/al/Mobile/state2.html|access-date=November 18, 2007}}</ref>
}}
'''Magnolia Cemetery''' is a historic city cemetery located in [[Mobile, Alabama]]. Filled with many elaborate Victorian-era monuments, it spans more than {{convert|100|acre|ha}}.<ref name="magnoliacem">{{cite web|title=Welcome to the Magnolia Cemetery Website|work=Magnolia Cemetery website|url=http://www.magnoliacemetery.com/|access-date=November 18, 2007}}</ref>  It served as Mobile's primary, and almost exclusive, burial place during the 19th century.<ref name="magnoliacem"/>  It is the final resting place for many of Mobile's 19th- and early 20th-century citizens. The cemetery is roughly bounded by Frye Street to the north, Gayle Street to the east, and Ann Street to the west.<ref name="sledge">Sledge, John Sturdivant. ''Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile's Historic Cemeteries'', pp. 24–26. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.</ref>  Virginia Street originally formed the southern border before the cemetery was expanded and now cuts east–west through the center of the cemetery.<ref name="sledge"/>  Magnolia contains more than 80,000 burials and remains an active, though very limited, burial site today.<ref name="magnoliacem"/><ref name="magnoliamob">{{cite web|title=The Story of Magnolia Cemetery|work=City of Mobile|url=http://www.cityofmobile.org/parks/magnoliacemetery.php|access-date=November 18, 2007}}</ref>