Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville

Riverview Cemetery

Riverview Cemetery

Location of Riverview Cemetery

Details
Location Charlottesville, Virginia
Country United States
Coordinates 38°01′29″N 78°27′31″W / 38.0246°N 78.4587°W / 38.0246; -78.4587
Type Private
Owned by Riverview Cemetery Company
Size about 50 acres
Number of graves about 12,000
Website riverviewcemeteryva.com

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.[1] Some notable people interred here include Nicholas Lewis (b. 1734 d.1808), an officer in the American Revolution and friend of Thomas Jefferson;[2][3] Thomas L. Rosser (b. 1836 d. 1910) who was a General for the Confederate States of America and later an officer in the Spanish American War; and Virginia State Senator Emily Couric (b. 1947 d.2001).

References

  1. Riverview Cemetery History, brochure, Lara Day Kozak, Historic Preservation Program of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Spring 1998, under direction of Professor Daniel Bluestone.
  2. http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/nicholas-lewis
  3. http://people.virginia.edu/~mjb6g/LewisHouse/nicolaslewishouse.htm
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