Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville

Riverview Cemetery
Riverview Cemetery
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Established1892
Location
Charlottesville, Virginia
CountryUnited States
Coordinates38°01′31″N 78°27′29″W / 38.0253674°N 78.4579593°W / 38.0253674; -78.4579593
TypePrivate
Owned byRiverview Cemetery Company
Sizeabout 50 acres
No. of gravesabout 12,000
Websiteriverviewcemeteryva.com
Find a GraveRiverview Cemetery

Riverview Cemetery is a private cemetery located in the Woolen Mills section of Charlottesville, Virginia, at 1701 Chesapeake Street. Founded in 1892 as Charlottesville's two public cemeteries—Maplewood and Oakwood—were filling up, Riverview consists of about 50 acres overlooking a bend in the Rivanna River and has approximately 12,000 graves with room for about 7,000 more.[1]

Notable burials

Some notable people interred here include:

References

  1. ^ Riverview Cemetery History, brochure, Lara Day Kozak, Historic Preservation Program of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Spring 1998, under direction of Professor Daniel Bluestone.
  2. ^ "Nicholas Lewis". Monticello.
  3. ^ "UVA Public People Search, U.Va". publicsearch.people.virginia.edu.
  4. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Couric, Emily #2777". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.