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Site Name Johnson's Island Cemetery Street Address Johson's Island Preservation Society, 414 West Main Street, P.O. Box 1865 City / State / Zip Marblehead OH, 43400 Phone number 800-441-1271 Web Page www.johnsonsisland.org   Admission Fee Free; $2.00 toll to cross causeway. Hours Cemetery, daily from dawn to dusk; museum, Memorial Day-Labor Day, weekends and holidays noon-5:00 P.M.; other times by appointment. Visitor services None. Regular Events None.     Directions From I-80/90 take exit 6A north on State Route 4 to State Route 2 west; take State Route 269 north to Danbury and Bay Shore Road; travel east on Bay Shore Road to Johnson Island entrance. Cross the causeway to Johnson Island.
Site Description
The Union army established a prisoner of war depot on Johnson's Island from April 1862 to September 1865. This cemetery holds the graves of 206 Confederates who died while imprisoned here. Individual homeowners privately own the remainder of the island. The nearby museum exhibits images, artifacts, letters, and other materials covering the island's history, including the forty months that the POW depot existed.

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