Barton Heights Cemeteries

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Barton Heights Cemeteries
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Barton Heights Cemeteries, July 2011
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Location	1600 Lamb Ave., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates	37°33′29″N 77°25′58″W / 37.55806°N 77.43278°W / 37.55806; -77.43278Coordinates: 37°33′29″N 77°25′58″W / 37.55806°N 77.43278°W / 37.55806; -77.43278
Area	12.6 acres (5.1 ha)
Built	1815 (1815)
NRHP Reference #	02000364^[1]
VLR #	127-5679
Added to NRHP	April 10, 2002
Designated VLR	June 13, 2001^[2]

Barton Heights Cemeteries is a set of six contiguous historic African-American cemeteries located in Richmond, Virginia. The cemeteries are the Cedarwood, Union Mechanics, Methodist, Sycamore, Ebenezer, and Sons and Daughters of Ham cemeteries. The cemeteries were established between ca. 1815 and ca. 1865. and include hundreds of burials.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
↑ Denise I. Lester (August 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Barton Heights Cemeteries" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos

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