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Oakwood Cemetery is a large, city-owned burial ground in the East End of Richmond, Virginia. It holds over 48,000 graves, including many soldiers from the Civil War. It holds over 48,000 graves, including many soldiers from the Civil War.
The first people buried in Oakwood in 1855 were African American. Though very few African American burials occurred there until the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground was closed in June 1879. [8] Mount Olivet Cemetery was originally the segregated African American section of the Maury Cemetery, which was founded in Manchester, Virginia in 1874 ...
Community members were invited to participate in a “Thank Our Veterans Walk” that proceeded through the cemetery and to the new military monument. Veterans Day in Adrian observed at Oakwood ...
Oakwood Cemetery may refer to any of at least 200 cemeteries named "Oakwood" or "Oak Wood" in the United States, including: Historic Oakwood Cemetery , in Raleigh, North Carolina, also known as "Oakwood Cemetery"
Unionville is an unincorporated community in Orange County, Virginia, United States. Unionville is 8 miles (13 km) east-northeast of Orange . Unionville has a post office with ZIP code 22567.
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 ...
Falls Church established an aircraft observation post at Oakwood Cemetery, and staffed it 24 hours per day, seven days per week, with 350 volunteers. They were known as air raid wardens, and maintained responsibility for the sky watch all the way to Washington.
Daughters of Zion Cemetery, also known as Zion Cemetery, Society Cemetery, and Old Oakwood Section, is a historic African-American cemetery located at Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was established in 1873, and contains an estimated 300 burial sites with 152 of the burials commemorated with 136 surviving grave markers.