Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond

Name: Oakwood Cemetery
Address: Richmond, United States

#109 among attractions in Richmond

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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. ()

Established: 1854 (170 years ago)Coordinates: 37°32'17"N, 77°23'49"W

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East End (Oakwood Cemetery)Richmond United States

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Oakwood Cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St. John's Episcopal Church, Chimborazo Park, Fourth Baptist Church, Leigh Street Baptist Church.

1.3 miW
Historic place with costumed tour guides
St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond
34 min walk • St. John's Church is an Episcopal church located at 2401 East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Formed from several earlier parishes, St. John's is the oldest church in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
1.2 miSW
Park, Garden, Playground
Chimborazo Park, Richmond
30 min walk • Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.
0.7 miW
Greek Revival architecture, Church
Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond
19 min walk • Fourth Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a distyle portico in antis elevated on a high podium.
1.1 miW
Greek Revival architecture, Church
Leigh Street Baptist Church, Richmond
28 min walk • Leigh Street Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in Church Hill North Historic District which is in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by architect Samuel Sloan and built between 1854 and 1857. It is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure.
0.6 miSE
Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond
15 min walk • Evergreen Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery in the East End of Richmond, Virginia, dating from 1891. The most recent burial in the historic section of the cemetery dates from the 1980s.
0.9 miE
37°32'15"N • 77°22'47"W
Grand Lodge of Virginia Library and Museum, Richmond
25 min walk • Museum
1.1 miSW
Museum
Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond
29 min walk • Chimborazo Hospital was a Civil War-era facility built in Richmond, Virginia to service the medical needs of the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865 in what is now Chimborazo Park, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers.
0.7 miW
Neighbourhood
East End, Richmond
18 min walk • The East End of Richmond, Virginia is the quadrant of the City of Richmond, Virginia, and more loosely the Richmond metropolitan area, east of the downtown.
1.3 miW
37°31'52"N • 77°25'9"W
St Patrick's Catholic Church, Richmond
34 min walk • Church
1.2 miNW
Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery, Richmond
31 min walk • Woodland Cemetery is a historically African American cemetery in Northeast Richmond, Virginia located directly east of the Highland Park neighborhood. Opening in 1916, it was built as a resting place for the black elite of Richmond.
1.3 miSW
Neighbourhood
Libby Hill, Richmond
34 min walk • Libby Hill is a small neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Libby Hill is located on the southeastern spur of Church Hill, overlooking the James River and the Lucky Strike building. It is known for Libby Hill Park and "The View that Named Richmond". The Libby Hill neighborhood is entirely within the St. John's Church Historic District.

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Which popular attractions are close to Oakwood Cemetery?

Nearby attractions include Creighton Court, Richmond (12 min walk), Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond (15 min walk), Nathaniel Bacon School, Richmond (17 min walk), East End, Richmond (18 min walk).