Introduction
The recent renovation of the Old City Cemetery has revealed the great diversity of people buried there and the wealth of beauty in their monuments and fascination in their stories.

Cemetery records are incomplete, tombstones have been lost to time and neglect, and many questions remain. However, it is known that the Old City Cemetery was the only burial ground in Lynchburg open to African Americans until 1885, and that three-quarters of all those buried in the Cemetery, from 1806 to the present, are African-American.

For more information about each of the featured gravesites, please click on the number below that corresponds to the map.



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Last updated
13 November 2003

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