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Hollywood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1847 and designed by the landscape architect John Notman. It is 135-acres in size and overlooks the James River.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Hollywood Cemetery overlooks the James River in Richmond, Virginia. It is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, besides that of the only Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis.
Established in 1847, Hollywood Cemetery is a fully operational cemetery located in Richmond, Virginia. Designed in 1847 by noted architect John Notman of Philadelphia, Hollywood Cemetery is known as a garden cemetery, a landscape style that became popular in the 19th century.
Hollywood Cemetery. Hollywood Cemetery was created in 1847, after two Richmond entrepreneurs visited Boston’s Mount Auburn, a model for the rural cemetery movement.
One of America's great rural cemeteries, overlooking the falls of the James River, Hollywood provides a final resting place for Richmond's—indeed, Virginia's—political, business, and creative leaders, as well as 18,000 Confederate dead.