Near Park Avenue at Euclid Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Here, on the 10th of May, 1861, the Second Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A., was organized.
Here, on the 10th of April, 1865, the same command, after years of valiant service with the Army of Northern Virginia, and after cutting its way through the . . . — — Map (db m54449) HM
On Fort Avenue (U.S. 460), on the left when traveling south.
During the Battle of Lynchburg on June 17-18, 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early moved his reserves into the cemetery to reinforce his lines across the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (Fort Ave.) at Fort Early. Before dawn on Sunday, June 19, these . . . — — Map (db m3936) HM
On Boonsboro Road (Business U.S. 501) just west of V.E.S. Road, on the left when traveling west.
Morris Alexander was the first caddy master and a longtime golf professional at Oakwood Country Club, which opened here in 1914. For more than 50 years, this African American golfer taught fundamentals and golf etiquette at the club, which was all . . . — — Map (db m179625) HM
On Peakland Place at Linden Avenue, in the median on Peakland Place.
The nearby Presbyterian Orphans' Home (later HumanKind) fielded its first football team by 1922. The players, boys under the age of 18, received minimal coaching, wore second-hand uniforms, and soon began competing without shoes, except for a boot . . . — — Map (db m179623) HM
On Richland Drive just north of Timberlake Road (Business U.S. 460), on the right when traveling north.
Samuel Miller, born in poverty in Albemarle
County, became a successful Lynchburg tobacco
merchant as a young adult. Investments in land,
bonds, banks, and railroads later made him one
of antebellum Virginia’s wealthiest men. Though
reclusive . . . — — Map (db m104436) HM
On Rivermont Avenue at J Street, on the right when traveling south on Rivermont Avenue.
Diplomat and author J. Rives Childs lived here in his youth. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army as a code breaker in France. After working for the American Relief Administration in the Balkans and the Soviet Union, he began a 30-year . . . — — Map (db m179611) HM
On Rivermont Avenue at Ash Street, on the right when traveling west on Rivermont Avenue.
This building formerly stood at Eighth and Church streets. It now stands one block north. It was built by John Miller about 1791. Thomas Wiatt bought the house, long known as the “Mansion House.” Samuel Claytor purchased it in 1825. For . . . — — Map (db m54459) HM
Famous canal boat
of the
James River and Kanawha Company,
which conveyed the body of
Stonewall Jackson
from Lynchburg to Lexington,
May 13, 1863 — — Map (db m54372) HM
After Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died on May 10, 1863 as a result of wounds suffered a week earlier at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his body was transported first to Richmond for public mourning and then to Lexington for burial. Much of . . . — — Map (db m54371) HM
On Rivermont Avenue just west of Rowland Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Sallie Mahood, painter of landscapes and portraits for half a century, moved to Lynchburg as a young adult. She studied with prominent artists in Martha's Vineyard, New York, Paris and was frequently commissioned to paint portraits of notable . . . — — Map (db m179616) HM
Near Riverside Street, 0.1 miles north of Rivermont Avenue.
By the dawn of the 20th century, Lynchburg needed more open space for public recreation Daniel's Hill sat high above the James River along the new electric trolley line that ran down the middle of Rivermont Avenue, through one of the . . . — — Map (db m182838) HM
Near Riverside Street, 0.1 miles north of Rivermont Avenue.
The spring-fed, 500,000-gallon Riverside Park pool acted like a magnet on hot summer days, attracting children and families into its cool confines. In 1931, 32,403 used the pool and the bathhouse's 420 lockers. A sand beach eased swimmers into one . . . — — Map (db m182836) HM
On Sandusky Drive, on the left when traveling west.
In early May 1864, while Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee confronted the Union Army of the Potomac west of Fredericksburg, Union Gen. U.S. Grant sent Gen. Franz Sigel’s army to destroy Lee’s supplies in the Shenandoah Valley. After the Union defeat . . . — — Map (db m3942) HM
On John Lynch Place at Fort Avenue (U.S. 460), on the left when traveling east on John Lynch Place.
From here in June 1864, Confederate cavalrymen watched Gen. David Hunter’s Union army advance toward them on the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (Fort Ave). Hunter departed Lexington on June 14 and crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains near Peaks of Otter. . . . — — Map (db m155562) HM
On Sandusky Drive, on the left when traveling west.
Union Gen. David Hunter’s army reached the outskirts of Lynchburg on June 17, 1864, despite being delayed by engagements with Gen. John McCausland’s Confederate cavalry. That evening, Hunter made his headquarters here at Sandusky, aware that . . . — — Map (db m3923) HM
Near Sandusky Drive at Pawnee Drive (Business U.S. 460), on the left when traveling north.
This marker is dedicated to the memory of the Union soldiers, who numbered around a hundred, most of them mortally wounded, who, after the Battle of Lynchburg, June 17-18, 1864, were under the care of Drs. John J. Terrell and Edward A. Craighill at . . . — — Map (db m169075) HM WM
On Dewitt Street just west of Garfield Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
John Chilembwe was the leader, in 1915, of the first major African uprising against colonial authorities in the British Protectorate of Nyasaland (Malawi). Chilembwe had come to Lynchburg in 1897 to study at Virginia Seminary under its president, . . . — — Map (db m179856) HM
On Dewitt Street just south of Garfield Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Mbye Otabenga, later known as Ota Benga, was born in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1904 the Rev. Samuel P. Verner, adventurer and former Presbyterian missionary, brought Benga and eight other Congolese purported to be . . . — — Map (db m179854) HM
On Dewitt Street at Garfield Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Dewitt Street.
In 1886 the Virginia Baptist State Convention founded the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary as an institution of “self-reliance,” “racial pride,” and “faith”. It first offered classes in 1890 as the renamed Virginia Seminary. Under the direction of Gregory . . . — — Map (db m74005) HM
Near Fort Avenue (Business U.S. 460) at John Lynch Place, on the right when traveling east.
Placed in memory of the brave soldiers of the
91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
"Bloody Buckeye Boys in Blue"
Who gave their lives during the Battle of Lynchburg
June 17-18, 1864 to preserve the Union
1st Lieutenant George B. Stroup • D . . . — — Map (db m54375) HM
Near Fort Avenue (Business U.S. 460) at John Lynch Place, on the right when traveling east.
Founder of Lynchburg,
who was the proprietor of lands
upon which the city is built
and for whom the city is named.
A zealous Quaker, benevolent
gentleman and promoter of
whatever advanced the general
good of his community.
Born 1740 . . . — — Map (db m54418) HM
On Fort Avenue (Business Route 460) at Coronado Lane, on the right when traveling east on Fort Avenue.
In the mid-18th century, members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) settled in the Lynchburg area, initially worshiping in one another's houses. According to local tradition, the first meetinghouse was constructed here of logs in 1757 and . . . — — Map (db m54403) HM
On Fort Avenue (Business U.S. 460) at Coronado Lane, on the right when traveling east on Fort Avenue.
To the northwest is Sandusky, built by Charles Johnston about 1808. He named it after a place in Ohio where Indians had held him prisoner in 1790. The two-story structure was one of the Lynchburg area's first houses to display the details and . . . — — Map (db m54420) HM
Near Fort Avenue (Business U.S. 460) at John Lynch Place, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated to the memory of the men of West Virginia who gave their lives to preserve the Union during Gen. David Hunter’s Lynchburg Campaign, June 15-20, 1864
1st West Virginia Light Artillery
Battery B
Pvt. John Boyce
Pvt. William Rust . . . — — Map (db m169112) WM
On Langhorne Road (U.S. 501), on the left when traveling west.
To your right, Confederates built an earthen redoubt in 1864 to defend the strategic Virginia & Tennessee Railroad trestle over Ivy Creek. The six-gun battery of the Botetourt Artillery manned the redoubt and a position on the other side of Forest . . . — — Map (db m3924) HM
On Langhorne Road (U.S. 501), on the left when traveling west.
The fort on the hill here was constructed by General J.A. Early to protect the approach to Lynchburg from the west. Union cavalry skirmished with the Confederates along the road immediately west of the fort. The Unionists, driven back by General . . . — — Map (db m3600) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Scattered throughout the Monroe Street side of the cemetery are at least six gravestones, dating from the 1850's and 1860's, bearing the inscription "col'd" after the name. These stones, indicating a "colored" person, are extraordinary because they . . . — — Map (db m179735) HM
Near Taylor Street at 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This map was drawn by John Caruthers in 1858, for the Diuguid Undertakers business, and was paid for by City Council. Although the grid system was not adhered to with any regularity, the large sections for specific racial or class groups (e.g. . . . — — Map (db m179650) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.3 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
When African slaves came to America, they brought their culture with them, including their own languages, foods, styles of dress, and burial customs. This exhibit shows a few of the West African burial and funeral traditions practiced during the . . . — — Map (db m179784) HM
Near Taylor Street just north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
According to Court and City Directory records, mother and daughter, Agnes (1789-1874) and Lizzie (1833-1891) Langley ran a "Sporting House" on Commerce Street during the 19th century. Later, Lynchburg's "Red Light District" of World War II fame was . . . — — Map (db m156588) HM
On Monroe Street just south of 4th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Gamma Iota Omega, Lynchburg, VA
Omicron Sigma, University of Lynchburg
In memory of ΑΚΑ Founder Miss Marjorie Hill
Teacher, Morgan College, Lynchburg Campus 1908-1909
— — Map (db m179839) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Amelia Elizabeth Perry (1857-1932) was one of the first Negro teachers in the Lynchburg Public School system. She was first appointed in 1881 and was principal of the Polk Street School for 20 of her 33 years of service.
Among her many . . . — — Map (db m179734) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
This ancient sugar maple tree had to be cut down in December 2003. It was estimated to be 120 years old, probably planted in the 1880's by Colonel Kirkwood Otey, a disabled Confederate veteran, and his wife Lucy Norvell Otey. The Oteys planted . . . — — Map (db m179775) HM
On 5th Street (Virginia Route 163) just west of Polk Street, on the right when traveling west.
Dr. Augustus Lushington, veterinarian, practiced in Lynchburg for nearly four decades. A native of Trinidad, he attended Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1897 he became one of the first Black men in the U.S. to earn a . . . — — Map (db m179840) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Blind Billy (died 1856) was a beloved street musician. He led parades and played for balls and parties in the private homes of Lynchburg citizens. "He could render his notes as sharp as would made a soldier do or die…or so soft and sweet as to . . . — — Map (db m179677) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Within the massive stone wall enclosure in the far southeastern corner is the grave of Bransford Vawner. His home is still standing at 409 Polk Street, a half-block from here. "He was elegant in appearance, graceful in manner and brilliant in . . . — — Map (db m179666) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
This unique gravemarker is one of only two barrel-vaulted brick tombs in the Cemetery. The vault is filled with dirt, and the true grave is several feet below ground level. The identity of the person buried here is unknown. Based on the tomb's . . . — — Map (db m179760) HM
The first official caretaker of the cemetery was hired by the City of Lynchburg in 1866. He was paid $100 a year, and was only responsible for the care of the Confederate section. Over the years the role of the caretaker expanded to include . . . — — Map (db m74093) HM
This chapel was modeled after the 1880 Ivy Chapel Union Church in Bedford County. Most of the construction materials and furnishings were salvaged from the demolition of the c. 1870 Hermon Methodist Church at Oakville in Appomattox County. The bell . . . — — Map (db m74040) HM
The cast-iron pitcher was made by Glamorgan foundry of Lynchburg and given to the city in October 1890 for use at the College Hill Reservoir. Shortly after installation, the local newspaper praised the pitcher as “a handsome and striking . . . — — Map (db m74068) HM
Near Taylor Street at 4th Street when traveling north.
In memory of the Confederate Soldiers who died of smallpox in the hospitals of Lynchburg during the War between the States. C. S. A. — — Map (db m156559) WM
On October 16, 1876, a tragic “false alarm” panic at the old Court Street Baptist Church resulted in the deaths of eight people attending a wedding reception there. One of these young women, Maria Wilson, age 17, is buried nearby. . . . — — Map (db m74055) HM
A week before the city of Lynchburg was to be invaded by 18,000 Union troops, the city lay vulnerable, unprotected by Confederate forces.
Brigadier General Francis T. Nicholls, a double amputee, who had recovered in a Lynchburg hospital, . . . — — Map (db m74052) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Daniel Butler (1874-1942) was a "scholar, orator, poet, politician and a leader of his people." In 1898 he staged a very colorful campaign on the Republican ticket for the 6th District Congressional seat, but lost to Major Peter J. Otey. He . . . — — Map (db m179742) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Pastor of Court Street Baptist Church, 1883-1896
Led the Split Congregation and Founded
Eighth Street Baptist Church, 1898-1911
First President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, 1888-1890
Dr. . . . — — Map (db m179672) HM
Near Taylor Street just north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
In memory of Eleanor Custis Lewis Carter 1800-1845 wife of Henry Brown Jr. and wife of John H. Patteson M.D. great-niece of George Washington — — Map (db m156590) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Elizabeth Gavino Hubert Lushington (1873-1929) was born in Antigua and came to the United States as a ward of Bishop Hubert, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in New York City. In 1890 she married Augustus Nathaniel . . . — — Map (db m179740) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Buried throughout the cemetery are hundreds of European immigrants who came to Lynchburg and the surrounding counties, ca. 1820-1920. They sailed to America seeking economic opportunity and refuge from war and famine, from countries including . . . — — Map (db m179732) HM
On Taylor Street at 4th Street, on the right when traveling north on Taylor Street.
Close by is a row of four matching tombstones for the sons of J.L. and Susan Marks: "Willie", "Guy", "Johnnie", and "Jimmie", who died during the years 1867 to 1877. It was not unusual for whole families of children to be lost to the ravages of . . . — — Map (db m179651) HM
A Project Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy and the Southern Memorial Association
Special thanks to the following people, who contributed to the research and design of this exhibit:
James Deetz • . . . — — Map (db m74094) HM
The dates beneath each carver’s name represent the span of his gravestones in the cemetery.
The Fieldstone Carver
First Gravestone Carver in Lynchburg
1811-1849
The fieldstone carver is the oldest professional carver of . . . — — Map (db m74095) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.3 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
These "seriation" graphs show which gravestone styles and materials were most popular in a given decade in the Lynchburg City Cemetery.
The graphs also suggest how gravestone fashion and public tastes have changed over time, since the . . . — — Map (db m179785) HM
This museum tells the story of the care of the cemetery's grounds and gravemarkers over the past 200 years. On display is an elegant horse-drawn hearse used by Lynchburg's W.D. Diuguid Funeral Directors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. A simple . . . — — Map (db m74037) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Nearby is interred the remains of a
Revolutionary War Soldier
Henry Holdcroft
Norvell
Born Jan. 1759 - Died Feb. 20, 1847
Sergeant, 1st. Virginia Infantry Regt. — — Map (db m179668) HM WM
Hermon Methodist Church was established in c.1870 in Appomattox County, Virginia. The church was named for the biblical Mount Hermon. It was located east of Route 24 on what is now property of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. A . . . — — Map (db m74064) HM
1898 Station built by Chesapeake & Ohio Railway for $366.59, based on C&O “Standard Station No. 2” design.
1929 C&O Railway made the Station a non-agency station (without an agent) and discontinued its telegraph office. . . . — — Map (db m74076) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Acer saccharin
"Sugar Maple"
Great-granddaughter of
Lucy Mina Norvell Otey
Granddaughter of
Colonel Kirkwood Otey, CSA
and
Lucy Dabney Norvell Otey
President of the Southern Memorial Association, . . . — — Map (db m179774) HM WM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This plaque is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Sawney Early, Sr., and Malinda Speece, two noble souls who bravely endured the horrific hardships of slavery. Our prayer is that the sins of the past may never be repeated, as we remember those . . . — — Map (db m179739) HM
On 5th Street (Virginia Route 163), on the left when traveling north.
Near here ran the line of inner defences located by Gen. D. H. Hill, June, 1864. He had been sent from Petersburg by Gen. Beauregard to assist Gen. Breckinridge then in command. On Gen. Early’s arrival, troops were moved to the outer work. — — Map (db m15539) HM
This cast-iron fence, now surrounding the Earley Memorial Shrub Garden, originally enclosed College Hill Reservoir, located only a few blocks away on Park Ave. It was installed there in 1878 when the city had outgrown the old Clay Street Reservoir. . . . — — Map (db m74066) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Buried midway across the graveyard to the west is Israel Snead, who served as a Tobacco Inspector in the town of Lynchburg from 1815-1839. At this time in Virginia, 90% of tobacco was inspected in Richmond, Petersburg, or Lynchburg. He worked at . . . — — Map (db m179683) HM
Ivy Chapel Union Church was built in I880 on Coffee Road in Bedford County, Virginia. The chapel was named for nearby Ivy Creek. It was known as a “union church” because it served as a house of worship for Baptist, Methodist, and . . . — — Map (db m74065) HM
On Jackson Street at 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north on Jackson Street.
Jacob Eschbach Yoder (22 Feb. 1838-15 Apr. 1905), reared a Mennonite in Pennsylvania, came to Lynchburg after the Civil War to teach former slaves in the Freedmen's Bureau's Camp Davis School. Following Reconstruction, Yoder served as supervising . . . — — Map (db m74007) HM
Near Taylor Street just north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
In the far corner of the cemetery near the exit is a small gravemarker inscribed "Unknown White Man Drowned in James River June 1, 1891"
"About noon… a wretched and emaciated stranger apparently in the last stages of consumption, ended his . . . — — Map (db m179663) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
In the Owens family enclosure towards the East are buried Jane and Owen Owens. They lived in the Miller-Claytor House when it was on the corner of 8th and Church Streets. Here they established the first circulating library in Lynchburg, making . . . — — Map (db m179676) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
These eloquent words appeared in an editorial in the Lynchburg News at the time of her death:
"A superior cook, perfect in serving dinner for special occasions, and a laundress who did exquisite work, comparable to a . . . — — Map (db m179755) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
John (1810-1889) and Rachel (1836-1885) were mulattoes who had been born slaves in Virginia. Sold by their original master to pay debts, they were purchased by an Episcopal minister who married them and baptized their children. The minister freed . . . — — Map (db m179737) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Joseph Parker was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. He was one of the original enlistees in the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Partisan Rangers. It was John Singleton Mosby, most trusted scout of Confederate . . . — — Map (db m179675) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
Josiah Holbrook was the founder of the Lyceum Movement in America. He died as a result of a fall into Blackwater Creek while on a geological excursion. Assembling in haste, the only mourners were the schoolboys who had been his faithful . . . — — Map (db m179685) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Julia Whiteley Branch (c. 1850-1937) was a respected midwife and beloved nurse in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The families she attended were among those prominent in the development of Lynchburg and include Sydnor, . . . — — Map (db m179779) HM
Near Taylor Street, 0.3 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Daughter
Winnie Branch
Winnie was the mother of
Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson
(1893-1956)
He was the first Negro President of Fisk University (1946-1956), represented the President of the United States on commissions in . . . — — Map (db m179780) HM
Life…
Hundreds of people buried in this cemetery were employed by the railroad industry. The railroad’s contributions to Lynchburg’s economy were extraordinary, and it was a major employer in the city between 1850 and 1920. Railroads . . . — — Map (db m74082) HM
The unsung and frequently unappreciated heroes of the Confederacy were the Southern women who worked in hospitals. Mrs. Lucy Mina Otey, age 60 and a recent widow who eventually lost three sons in the Civil War, formed a corps of 500 Lynchburg women, . . . — — Map (db m74050) HM
Lynchburg was known as “Tobacco Town” before the Civil War, with its 70 thriving tobacco businesses and numerous warehouses. It was also a railroad hub, the terminus of three railroads. Early in the Civil War, many of the warehouses were . . . — — Map (db m74049) HM
This map shows Lynchburg during the Civil War Battle of Lynchburg, June 1864. The “Public Burying Ground,” also known as the Old Methodist Cemetery or Old City Cemetery, was located at the edge of town.
By 1860 three major . . . — — Map (db m74077) HM
Lynchburg’s hospital center was staffed with over 50 military surgeons reporting for duty from all parts of the Confederacy.
The War Department appointed Lynchburg physician, William Otway Owen, as Surgeon-in-Charge of Lynchburg’s large medical . . . — — Map (db m74051) HM
Near this spot on the afternoon of August 16, 1830, John M. Jones was hanged in Lynchburg’s first public execution. In May of 1829, Jones, a Lynchburg slaveowner, had killed George Hamilton on the James River waterfront in a dispute over Jones’s . . . — — Map (db m155539) HM
Near Wise Street at 4th Street when traveling north.
This three piece marble column adorned the front of the First National Bank building, Tenth and Main Streets. It was built 1908-09, P. Thornton Marye, architect. When the building was completely remodeled in 1976-77 all marble was replaced by a . . . — — Map (db m156584) HM
Near Wise Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling south.
Cabell Street Methodist Church
William Amos Laughon (minister, 1885-1889)
Centenary United Methodist Church
(Third Street Methodist Church
Robert F. Hening (trustee, steward, leader of singing, 1840s-80s) • . . . — — Map (db m179829) HM
This old burying ground, established in 1806, is where most of Lynchburg's African Americans were laid to rest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As many as 75% of the estimated 20,000 people buried here are African-American.
This . . . — — Map (db m74025) HM
On 4th Street at Taylor Street, on the right when traveling west on 4th Street.
This 1929 map of the boundaries of the Old City Cemetery is the only known record available to locate graves “within the walls” in the older section of the cemetery. Even today no records exist for grave locations throughout the cemetery other . . . — — Map (db m74027) HM
On Taylor Street, on the left when traveling west.
“With a graveyard on one side, quartermaster’s glanders stable on the other, and smallpox hospital in the middle, one (is) reminded of the mortality of man.” “A Confederate Surgeon’s Story,” Confederate Veteran, 1931, John . . . — — Map (db m155505) HM
On Taylor Street near 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Old City Cemetery, also known as the Methodist Cemetery, was established as a public burial ground in 1806 on land donated by John Lynch, founder of Lynchburg. Mayors and other prominent civic leaders, along with the city's indigent and . . . — — Map (db m74011) HM
This 1840’s white frame building was the medical office of Dr. John Jay Terrell. It was moved here in 1987 from Rock Castle Farm in Campbell County and has been restored to recreate medical science in the era of 1860 to 1900. These exhibits . . . — — Map (db m74038) HM
“Frank Trigg came into this world a slave and was buried a retired college president.” He was born in 1850 at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond, as his parents, Sarah and Frank Sr., served Governor John B. Floyd. At age 13 he lost an . . . — — Map (db m74060) HM
Near Taylor Street at 4th Street when traveling north.
(panel 1) "The work of removing the bodies of Federal soldiers, who died here during the war, was commenced on yesterday. Their remains will be taken from this place to City Point for re-interment." Lynchburg Daily Virginian Saturday, . . . — — Map (db m156593) HM
Near Taylor Street north of 4th Street when traveling north.
In this area are buried five soldiers who fought in the American Revolution 1776-1783:
Two of them, the Duffel brothers, are buried on the East side, near the fence:
James (1759-1835) enlisted in the Continental . . . — — Map (db m179670) HM
Near Taylor Street just north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Private Richard Burke •
First Lieutenant William Daniel, Sr •
Private Edward Duffell •
Corporate James Duffell •
Private Reuben George •
Lieutenant Francis Gray •
Private Daniel Mann •
Sergeant James Moseley •
Sergeant Henry H . . . — — Map (db m179667) HM WM
Near Taylor Street, 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling north.
"Death of a Worthy Colored Man. — A very worthy and respectable colored man named Samuel Brice, residing on Twelfth Street, died yesterday morning, aged 55 years. The deceased bore a good character, and was well thought of in the community. At . . . — — Map (db m179772) HM
Silas Green was born into slavery around the year 1845 on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. According to local legend, soon after the beginning of the Civil War, Green voluntarily enrolled in the Confederate army. His owner considered him . . . — — Map (db m74059) HM
Sinister Activities had been rumored in 1897, but great alarm spread among both Negro and White citizens when it was discovered that the body of a young woman, Ella Jamieson, supposed to be buried in Potter's Field, was instead being shipped to . . . — — Map (db m74061) HM
