The Shockoe Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Shockoe Hill in Richmond, Virginia.
Read more about Shockoe Hill Cemetery: History, Notable Burials
Famous quotes containing the words hill and/or cemetery:
“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)