Franklin Street Burial Grounds
Franklin Street Burial Grounds is a cemetery in Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia. Franklin Street Burial Grounds is situated nearby to the neighborhood Shockoe Bottom, as well as near Old Stone House.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Edgar Allan Poe Museum.
Virginia Holocaust Museum
Museum
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The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims. Virginia Holocaust Museum is situated 600 feet southwest of Franklin Street Burial Grounds.
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Museum
Photo: Albrecht Conz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe Museum is situated 450 feet west of Franklin Street Burial Grounds.
Libby Prison
Archaeological site
Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.
Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun. Libby Prison is situated 800 feet southwest of Franklin Street Burial Grounds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Union Hill.
Shockoe Bottom
Neighborhood
Shockoe Bottom, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in Richmond, Virginia, just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and Church Hill, Shockoe Bottom contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
Union Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Union Hill is a historic district of Richmond, Virginia. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…
Shockoe Slip
Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Shockoe Slip is a district in the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia. The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former James River and Kanawha Canal.
Franklin Street Burial Grounds
- Type: Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.5321° or 37° 31′ 56″ northLongitude
-77.42453° or 77° 25′ 28″ westOpen location code
8794GHJG+R5OpenStreetMap ID
way 1467380190OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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