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The funeral home was featured on a postcard, which is part of the Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection at the Boston Public Library. [7] A mortician bought the building in 2008. [8] In 2010, the main building was converted into 14 apartments. [9] In March of 2022, a five-story apartment building was approved to be built in the funeral home's ...
Richmond, VA (East End). March 2, 2007. Jones, Will (November 9, 2009). "Neglected cemetery being reclaimed". Richmond Times-Dispach. Archived from the original on November 11, 2009; Hipolit, Melissa (May 24, 2016). "Historic Richmond cemetery where Maggie Walker is buried in disrepair". WTVR 6News. Richmond, VA: Scripps Local Media.
The City of Richmond purchased land in 1799 on the northern end of Shockoe Hill, for the main purpose of establishing a municipal burying ground. The Shockoe Hill Cemetery was established on those grounds in 1820. When space became scarce for new burials, the city responded by expanding the burying ground with the addition of 14 acres in 1850.
The second largest African American cemetery in the area, Woodland is surpassed only by Evergreen Cemetery.The cemetery was founded and designed by Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell, Jr. [2] The cemetery is designed in the rural cemetery style and incorporates winding roads on terraced slopes and laid out with concrete roads and pathways.
Richmond Discovery tour guide Jim DuPriest said.” So, Mrs. Pickett was buried in Abbey Mausoleum [which was] nearby, besides, and adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Northern Virginia.” … “Near the end of the ceremony, the families sprinkled soil from Mrs. Pickett’s home in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Virginia.” [31]
The cemetery and Loudon Park Funeral Home, Inc. are locally owned and operated. Both the cemetery and the funeral home became privately owned in 2014 when they were acquired from Service Corporation International (SCI). [4] Loudon Park Funeral Home was built on the grounds of the historic cemetery by Stewart Enterprises in 1995. [5]
The city of Richmond acquire ownership of East End Cemetery in 2024. [11] [14] [15] Colored Paupers Cemetery (a.k.a.The Garden of Lilie's) established in 1896 by the city of Richmond, on land adjoining the city's Oakwood Cemetery. [8] Woodland Cemetery was acquired in 1916 and opened in 1917, by the Richmond Planet newspaper editor John ...
The Tri-Cities area is centered on the Appomattox River about 25 miles (40 km) south of Richmond. The Appomattox has its confluence with the James River near historic City Point in Hopewell. The applicable Metropolitan Statistical Area for the Tri-Cities area is the Richmond, VA MSA , which includes Richmond and counties generally to the north ...