Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia

About

Get directions 3101 Nine Mile Road
Richmond, Virginia 23223 United States

Coordinates: 37.53750, -77.39890
804-646-4473
Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

Photos

See 10 more

1,056 open photo requests.

Section and lot must accompany photo requests in this massive and active city-owned cemetery; There is a staffed on-site records office to assist. The first burials were in 1855. In 1861, Richmond was named the capital of the new Confederate States of America. After the Civil War broke out, the city's hospitals and clinics received a large number of critically wounded soldiers. The Committee on Burying Grounds agreed to provide interment for soldiers who died in Richmond or Henrico County, and in July 1862 offered to have Oakwood Cemetery opened for large scale burial of Confederate soldiers, and set aside a separate section of the grounds for this purpose. Oakwood Cemetery was the final resting place of soldiers who died in treatment at Chimborazo Hospital, a massive facility on Church Hill, along with casualties from several battles fought in the Richmond area. By the end of the war, the Confederate section of the cemetery covered about 7.5 acres and contained around 17,000 burials. Oakwood Cemetery today covers about 199 acres of ground, and continues to be maintained by the City of Richmond and various charitable trusts.