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The Shockoe Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Shockoe Hill in Richmond, Virginia. ==History== Established in 1820, with the initial burial in 1822, Shockoe Hill Cemetery was the first city-owned municipal burial ground in Richmond. The cemetery expanded in 1833, 1850, and 1870. It is now open only to burials of family members in existing family plots, but as of March 2015 plans are being developed to reclaim unused plots for re-sale, as well as to create structures for niches to hold cremated remains. The City of Richmond still owns and maintains the cemetery. The Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery (), a volunteer group formed in 2006, acts as a steward of the cemetery. Shockoe Hill Cemetery is on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places. About five hundred Union Army POWs had been buried just outside the east cemetery wall from 1861 to 1863, but their remains were moved to Richmond National Cemetery, three miles to the east, in 1866–67. Two markers, one placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1938, and the other by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (a/k/a MOLLUS) in 2002 to memorialize those soldier burials.〔http://soldiersofshockoehill.com〕 Shockoe Hill Cemetery is across the street from the Hebrew Cemetery of Richmond, a separate and privately-owned cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shockoe Hill Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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