It was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1832.

The cemetery contains more than 400 graves with monuments dating from the late 1700s to the present.

Its memorial markers include small tablets, ledger stones, obelisks, columnar monuments and mausoleums.

[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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