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Woodlawn Memorial Gardens is a cemetery located in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.Established as a private, family owned cemetery in 1958, Woodlawn Memorial Gardens encompasses seventy-five acres of land, 40 of which are undeveloped, at the Norfolk and Virginia Beach borders in Southeastern Virginia adjacent to Virginia Beach Boulevard and Newtown Road.
Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery in the East End of Richmond, Virginia, dating from 1891. The most recent burial in the historic section of the cemetery dates from the 1980s. Much of the privately owned cemetery had completely overgrown with kudzu or is returning to forest until ...
Though they are part of and owned by the city of Richmond today, the cemeteries were originally in Henrico County, and privately owned. [6] [7] Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1854 by the city of Richmond. It is a cemetery which included segregated African American sections. The first people buried in Oakwood in 1855 were African American.
Over 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington County, Virginia. Arlington National Cemetery was established on 13 May 1864, during the American Civil War after Arlington Estate, the land on which the cemetery was built, was confiscated by the U.S. federal government from the private ownership of Confederate States Army ...
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried. The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a ...
Until about 1970, private cemeteries like Woodland and Evergreen Cemeteries were the only cemeteries open to African Americans for burial in the city of Richmond. [4] The city-owned cemeteries remained segregated until over a century after slaves became free in America. As far back as the early 1900s, Woodland Cemetery was known as a ...
Ivy Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery and national historic district located at Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It was established in 1886, and is a privately owned cemetery. Grave markers within the cemetery date from the mid-19th century to the present day. It includes a number of notable funerary monuments. [3]
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.