OAK LAWN CEMETERY | A Future Look at the Preservation of Virginia’s African American Cemeteries

03 Dec A Future Look at the Preservation of Virginia’s African American Cemeteries – Horizons, Virginia Africana Associates

Posted at 00:14h in 45th U. S. Colored Infantry, Civil War, Evergreen Cemetery - Richmond (VA), Family History, Friends of Oak Lawn Cemetery, Genealogy, Henrico County, Nansemond County, Nansemond County (VA), North Carolina, Oak Lawn Cemetery - Suffolk (VA), preservation, Railroads, Richmond, Sacred Grounds Project Inc., Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Suffolk, U. S. Colored Troops, Virginia, Virginia Cemeteries, Woodland Cemetery - Richmond (VA) by Nadia K. Orton 0 Comments

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A collaborative article on the current preservation efforts of Richmond, Virginia’s African American cemeteries: Evergreen, East End, and Woodland. We include this article here as many folks that we’ve researched in Evergreen Cemetery have family connections to Oak Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk, Virginia.

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Nadia Orton

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Professional genealogist and public historian. Graduate of Duke University. President of the Sacred Grounds Project, Inc. Studying historic African American cemeteries and communities.