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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.
Richmond National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery three miles (4.8 km) east of Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 9.7 acres (3.9 ha), and as of 2021 [update] had more than 11,000 interments.
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1847 in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The 135-acre cemetery [1] contains many notable burials including 2 U.S. Presidents, the President of the Confederate States of America [2] and 25 Confederate Army officers. [3
Section 60, in the southeast part of the cemetery, is the burial ground for military personnel killed in the "war on terror" since 2001. [92] Section 21, also known as the Nurses Section, is the burial site for many nurses, and the location of the Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial and the Nurses Memorial. [93]
Hampton National Cemetery: Two small, granite blocks near the burial location of 272 Confederates are inscribed "To Our Confederate Dead" [36] Harrisonburg, Virginia : " Talbot Boys " monument (1914) at the Cross Keys battlefield , moved there from Talbot County Courthouse , Maryland, in 2022.
The cemetery claims to contain the burial of 18,000 confederate soldiers, however researchers believe the number is actually several thousand lower. [4] It is the largest single burial location of confederate soldiers. [29] It contains the burials of 25 Confederate Army officers including J.E.B. Stuart, Fitzhugh Lee and George Pickett. [30]
Evergreen Burial Park is a cemetery located at 1307 Summit Avenue, SW in the Raleigh Court neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. The cemetery began in 1916 in what was then Roanoke County. [1] 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 ...
It is located at 1305 N. 5th St., on the northern edge of Shockoe Hill, a mile and a half away from the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground. It is one of Virginia's most endangered historic places. Current threats to the burial ground include the DC2RVA high-speed rail project, the east-west Commonwealth Corridor, and the proposed widening of ...