Confederate Cemetery

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The Confederate section at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg. This is a beautiful old cemetery, HUGE! I wish the sun hadn't been shining directly on that sign so you could see how pretty it is!

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The Bennehan Family Graveyard @ Stagville

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The cemetery is a short walk from the house (see Tuesday & Wednesday's posts)

It's quite hot out, nearly 100 degrees but the shade from these trees makes it feel much cooler! We were told though that when this was a working plantation there weren't any trees around...The house sits up on a slight hill so that they were able to see all around the land...amazing how nature takes over when you let it!

I got very excited when I saw the old rock walls!

And even more excited when I saw this magnificent wrought iron gate!

Beautiful...

Rest In Peace Bennehan Family...

Heading back to the house...you can just see it through those trees...

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Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery

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Yesterday I showed you the church, now let's take a walk down to the cemetery...

Follow along this old trace road. It is believed that this road predates the Civil War.

There were a few of these hand made wooden crosses placed on the graves...

This cemetery was originally a slave burial site. Many of the graves are unmarked now and are only identified by their shallow depressions left in the ground.

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Rubbish Tuesday - Some Really Old Gates - Williamsburg

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These are all scattered around Colonial Williamsburg. The last one is the Jones Family Cemetery, also known as the Secretary's Office Graveyard. The gate was locked so I couldn't wander around. It is very small though. I have seen photos from ghost hunts with mists coming up out of the graves! Spooky! If you are obsessed with old graveyards like I am, I found this interesting yet sad story from the Virginia Gazette that ran in 1918 about the graves of Williamsburg. You can read that HERE and you can see more old stuff by visiting Roan @ Rubbish By Roan