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Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Virginia which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.
Barnstaple Cemetery (properly Bear Street Cemetery) is the burial ground for the town of Barnstaple in Devon and is managed by North Devon Council. [1] The cemetery opened in 1856 for the Barnstaple Burial Board and extends over an area of 13.2 acres and is bisected by a stream between the two slopes on which the cemetery is laid out.
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com . Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience."
The cemetery was designed by the Hare and Hare design firm of Kansas City, Missouri. There were nearly 25,000 burials in the 54-acre (220,000 m 2) cemetery by late 2011. A walking tour is available highlighting some of the more interesting individuals and stories of the social history of Roanoke.
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery is a historic Evangelical Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Speedwell, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately 250–300 total gravestones. Forty two of the stones have dates ranging from the 1790s to 1840, but all were carved between about 1835 to 1840.
St. John's Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church and cemetery and national historic district near Wytheville, Virginia, United States. The church was built in 1854 and is a rectangular, three bay by two bay, frame church sheathed in weatherboard. It measures 45 feet by 55 feet, has a gable roof, and sits on a ...
Blandford Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Petersburg, Virginia. Although in recent years it has attained some notoriety for its large collection of more than 30,000 Confederate graves, it contains remains of people of all classes and races as well as veterans of every American war. [ 3 ]
The church was built in 1883, and is a one-story, frame church, four bays long, with round-arched, stained-glass windows and a gable roof. It features a projecting square tower with a bell-cast pyramidal roof and cross finial on the entrance facade. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1817, and includes a collection of rare Germanic ...