LYNCHBURG, VA - CEMETERIES – White Rock Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, White Rock cemetery:
                  1936 Mar. 25
                  Research made by Richard A. Christian

Cemetery Location:  Located on White Rock Hill
                    Lynchburg, Virginia


DATE:

Approximately 1880.

OWNERS:

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DESCRIPTION:

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

White Rock Cemetery is the largest colored cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia.  
This cemetery dates back around fifty year (1936).  All of the real old colored 
people and slaves are buried in the Methodist or what was known then as the City 
Cemetery on Fourth and Monroe Streets.  The only people, white or colored buried 
there now, are some of the old settlers that owned plots of ground in the same.  
No tombstones in this cemetery dating as far back as 1865.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records, Campbell County, Virginia.

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