Old Dominion Tours and Virginia Destinations Inc.
Presents
Museums, Memorials etc
Museum & White House of the Confederacy
804-649-1861
(Closed in January)
M-S: 10am-5pm, Sunday: 12pm-5pm
$12/ adult
Come
face to face with history at The Museum of the Confederacy, the leading center
for the study of the Confederacy in the American Civil War!
A private non-profit educational & preservation organization, the Museum is home
to the world’s largest collection of artifacts, manuscripts & images associated
with the domestic, military & political life during the period of the
Confederacy. Exhibits feature the personal effects of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson
Davis and other Confederate figures of the Civil War. Take a guided tour of the
White House of the Confederacy, home to Confederate President Jefferson Davis
and his family throughout the war. The mansion contains over half the
furnishings that were here with the Davis family. Find unique Civil War items at
the Museum's Haversack Store
804-648-8501
8:30am-4:30pm every day
Free
Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in Richmond, Virginia. Characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River, it is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, as well as the only Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis. It is also the resting place of 25 Confederate generals, more than any other cemetery in the country. Included are George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart.
Hollywood Cemetery was opened in 1849, constructed on land known as "Harvie's Woods" that was once owned by William Byrd II. It was designed in the rural garden style, with its name, "Hollywood," coming from the holly trees dotting the hills of the property.
In 1869, a 90-foot (27 m) high granite pyramid was built as a memorial to the more than 18,000 enlisted men of the Confederate Army buried in the cemetery.
Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmond's major tourist attractions. There are many local legends surrounding certain tombs and grave sites in the cemetery, including one about a little girl and the black iron statue of a dog standing watch over her grave. Other notable legends rely on ghosts haunting the many mausoleums. One of the most well-known of these is the legend of the Richmond Vampire.
A place rich in history, legend, and gothic landscape, Hollywood Cemetery is also frequented by many of the local students attending Virginia Commonwealth University.
428 N. Boulevard
804-358-4901
M-S: 10am-5pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm
*Largest collection of Confederate manufactured weapons
*4 Seasons of the Confederacy (slide show)
Confederate Memorial Chapel
2900 Grove Avenue
Richmond, VA 23221
(Behind VA Museum of Fine Arts)
Wednesday-Sunday:11am-3pm
Free
Monument Avenue Statuary
Monument Ave
Well
over a century ago, the City of Richmond saw itself with a grand vision.
Citizens and elected officials wanted the former capital of the Confederacy to
be transformed into a symbol of Southern revitalization. The technique they
chose was the building of monuments and, in following this vision, they led the
way for urban sculpture across the country and produced an enduring and unique
civic landscape known as Monument Avenue.
Inaugurating this process, the city allowed the erection in 1887 of a tribute to Robert E. Lee at the west end of Franklin Street, paid for out of public donations and on property donated by the heirs of William C. Allen, a local builder and developer. The economic panic of 1893 and following economic collapse put a ten-year delay in the City's ambitious plans, but on Memorial Day, 1907, they unveiled the statute of General J. E. B. Stuart that now marks the apex of the avenue.
The circles in which the monuments stand are the centerpiece of a wide street for homes that was envisioned as the connection between the growing residential neighborhood of Sydney to the south (now called the Fan) and the bustling commercial highway of Broad Street to the north. The plan was laid out by City engineer C. P. E. Burgwyn to have lots wider and deeper than typical of the area, allowing for the construction of majestic homes that were to look out onto a four lane boulevard split by a generous median lined with trees and punctuated with statues and memorials to Virginians of high repute.
Here the original city planners' Franklin Street that stretched west with city growth from the Capitol grounds became transformed into Monument Avenue, a street that is today one of America's most recognized city neighborhoods and historic concourses. It bears a historic designation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for the entire street from one block east of Stuart Circle to Roseneath Road, and is the only such designated street of this scale in the country.
For more information please contact Old Dominion Tours & Virginia Destinations Inc.
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Telephone
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7324 Winterleaf Ct. Richmond, VA 23234
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