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Fry, Haxall, and 40 other prominent Richmond citizens [22] purchased 42 acres [7] from Lewis E. Harvie on June 3, 1847, for $4,075 to establish the cemetery. [20] The founders hired John Notman , who was the landscape architect for Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, to design the cemetery in the rural garden style. [ 23 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
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.
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.
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 1835 Plan of the City of Richmond shows an expansion of at least an acre to the slave burying ground. In 1850, when the city added 5 acres to the walled Shockoe Hill Cemetery, it also added 9 acres to what would come to be labeled on the 1853 Map of the County of Henrico as the "African Burying Ground", and additionally included the City ...
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 ...
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 ...