Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as Signal Hill, which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of Andrew Johnson National Monument in 1942. The U.S. Army built this lodge based on a prototype design by General Montgomery C. Meigs for military cemeteries, and cemetery caretakers and their families originally lived in the lodge. Today it contains National Park Service administrative offices, and the cemetery’s former stable is now the park’s maintenance area. An Act of Congress approved June 12, 1906, authorized the Secretary of War to accept, under the will of Martha J. Patterson, the tract of land where Andrew Johnson’s remains lie, known as Monument Hill.