Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)

 cemetery, place with historical importance, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic district, American Civil War 1861-1865

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Hollywood Cemetery, which first opened in 1849, is a large, sprawling cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River.

It is the only public cemetery in the country that is the resting place for two former U.S. Presidents as well as the only President of the Confederacy. The name "Hollywood" comes from the holly trees dotting the hills of the cemetery, and has nothing to do with the neighborhood in Los Angeles.

The cemetery was constructed on land known as "Harvie's Woods" that was once owned by William Byrd II. In 1869 a ninety-foot-high granite pyramid was built as a memorial to the more than 18,000 enlisted men of the Confederate Army who died in the American Civil War. Many Union soldiers are also interred here. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.

www.hollywoodcemetery.org