Riverview 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Also known as: “Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monticello and Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.
Monticello
Museum
Photo: YF12s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Monticello was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Monticello is situated 1¼ miles south of Riverview Cemetery.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
Art gallery
Photo: Cmh2de, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia houses one of the finest Indigenous Australian art collections in the world, rivaling many of the collections held in Australia. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is situated 1 mile east of Riverview Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pantops and Franklin.
Franklin
Locality
Franklin is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, located on the edge of the Pantops census-designated place.
Willoughby
Neighborhood
Willoughby is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. Willoughby is situated 2 miles southwest of Riverview Cemetery.
Riverview Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Charlottesville, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.02609° or 38° 1′ 34″ northLongitude
-78.4583° or 78° 27′ 30″ westElevation
410 feet (125 metres)Open location code
87C32GGR+CMOpenStreetMap ID
way 82490352OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=grave_yardOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryGeoNames ID
4782108Wikidata ID
Q7338729
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