Riverside Cemetery
The district also includes the 87-acre (350,000 m2) Riverside Cemetery, established in 1885. Thirteen thousand people are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery is the final resting place of a wide cross-section of prominent Carolinians: authors Thomas Wolfe and William Sydney Porter (better known by his pseudonym O. Henry); former North Carolina governor and Senator Zebulon Baird Vance; Senator Jeter Connelly Pritchard; Governor Locke Craig; Confederate generals Robert B. Vance, James Green Martin and Thomas Lanier Clingman; and George Masa, a photographer known for documenting the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Famous quotes containing the words riverside and/or cemetery:
“Upset at the young wife’s
first loss of virtue
in a riverside thicket,
a flock of birds
flies up,
mourning the loss
with their wings.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)