Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk VA

This past weekend, with my new lens on my camera, I headed for a cemetery. This seems to be my new 'thing'; shooting gravestones, markers, statues. Maybe it's the history that draws me in. Saturday my husband and I went and walked the Cedar Grove Cemetery here in Norfolk, VA. In January 1825, this became the first public burial ground in the City of Norfolk.

The City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the burying of any persons in the "Old Burying Ground" attached to St. Paul's Church on August 7, 1827. After that announcement 25 acres of land was appropriated to be used as a cemetery. Experiencing an increase in population and deaths, especially from smallpox and yellow fever epidemics, the City found it necessary to expand its burying ground on 50 acres across a branch of Smith's Creek from Cedar Grove. The new cemetery, Elmwood, was established in 1853. (taken from Bureau of Cemeteries - City of Norfolk)

Here's a bit of what I captured. ~ Enjoy! ~







No cemetery is complete in the south without a few Confederate flags flying proudly.