Memorial Day historic cemeteries tour
Commemorate Memorial Day with a tour of Richmond’s historic cemeteries, including St. John’s Church, Shockoe Cemetery, the Hebrew Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery.
Archive for “Oakwood Cemetery”
tree stewards @ Oakwood Cemetery
The Richmond Tree Stewards put in volunteer hours at Oakwood Cemetery this weekend pruning the trees.
SCV still interested in Oakwood
wtvr has 3-minute story on the ongoing bid by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to take over maintenance at Oakwood Cemetery. The story is a good look at both the finiancial savings for the city and the issues of how this might play out in “a predominantly African-American community”.
still no to SCV
The city continues to rebuff the Sons of Confederate Veterans June offer to take over maintenance, at their own expense, of Oakwood Cemetery.
Sons of Confederate Veterans makes offer for Oakwood
The Sons of Confederate Veterans has offered to take over maintenance, at their own expense, of the recently vandalized Oakwood Cemetery while allowing the city to keep the title. [via]
vandalized gravestones being restored
City workers from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services have begun restoring the 40 to 50 gravestones that were found vandalized in Oakwood Cemetery on June 9th. The knocked-over gravestones are mostly in the rear part of the cemetery, near the Confederate section. [via]
shooting victim crashes into cemetery
A pickup truck plowed through the front of the brick gatehouse at Oakwood Cemetery yesterday after the man driving the truck was shot. [via]
