Archive for “Shockoe Hill Cemetery”
Shockoe Hill Cemetery Tours Start Saturday
The Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery 2012 Spring/Summer Tour Schedule! Join the Friends for one or more of a special series of Sunday Cemetery tours. Each will cover the Cemetery’s unique history and heritage, with additional insights into prominent women of Richmond, notorious Civil War Unionists, immigrant stories, and more. (see schedule after the break) [...]
Missing Cemetery Statues Recovered
via the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery: On December 30th, former Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery President, Doug Welsh, reported the loss of one of our grave stones, the Sammani sculpture. The sculpture was of 16 year old, Aloysius Gibbons Carr, who died of Typhoid Fever in 1890. Within days of our theft, the Hebrew [...]
Quoit Club Tour of Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Really if you haven’t done this, you need to. Your missing one of Richmond’s great cemeteries. via the Quoit Club and Historic Richmond: The season concludes with a tour of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, led by the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery. The location provides a peaceful setting for some of Richmond’s earliest gravesites including United [...]
Shockoe Hill Cemetery Tours
Join the Friends as we host special Fall tours this month! On Sunday, October 9, we will explore the military connections of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, including perhaps the largest assemblage of War of 1812 veterans in the country. Sunday, October 9, we will explore the military connections of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, including perhaps the largest [...]
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Well, not too afraid to come, but yes, Shockoe Hill Cemetery at night is not for the faint of heart. I speak from experience. This night, though, should be safer than most as Haunts of Richmond will tour this spooky place. I’m sure they will provide some theatrics to add to the spell. This is [...]
Dog Attack in Shockoe Hill
The owner of a beagle who was attacked by another dog late this morning is looking for your help in finding the owner of a doberman mix who was running loose in Shockoe Hill cemetery. Both owner and dog were bitten and the doberman’s owner was seen riding away on a 10 speed style bike with messenger bag. [...]
Great Great Great Grandfather Mariano
via Shockoe Hill Cemetery: Today we were able to unite Frank Gianinni of Tidewater with his great-great-great-grandfather,? Mariano Gianinni (we believe the last name was misspelled on the marker). Mariano was one of the early Italian immigrants to America (from Lucca), and set himself up in Richmond as a grocer. He died in December 1863.
Memorial Day in Shockoe Hill
What a better time to discover Richmond’s oldest public cemetery than Memorial Day. Shockoe Hill Cemetery has grave sites of veterans from the Revolutionary War till at least WWII and maybe beyond. It is owned and maintained by the City, but the Friends of Shockoe Hill are often there on weekends picking up trash, raking leaves [...]
