Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District
Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District | |
Virginia Landmarks Register No. 127-7231 | |
View is from the eastern edge of the hill of the Hebrew Cemetery looking northeast across 5th St. to the original 1816 site of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground. | |
| Location | Bounded by 2nd St., northern limit of CSX right-of-way (now Virginia Passenger Rail Authority), Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
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| NRHP reference No. | 100007793 |
| VLR No. | 127-7231 |
| Added to NRHP | June 16, 2022 |
The Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District is a historic district located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, and is a significant example of a municipal almshouse–public hospital–cemetery complex of the sort that arose in the period of the New Republic, following disestablishment of the Anglican Church. The district illustrates changing social and racial relationships in Richmond through the New Republic, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow/Lost Cause eras of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
It was listed to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 2022; and listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on March 17, 2022.