Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia)

The Oak Grove Cemetery, originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campuses of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute.

[1] Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia, and Margaret Junkin Preston, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".

[3] After the Lexington Presbyterian Church conveyed the cemetery to the city in 1949, the cemetery was renamed later that year for the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who was interred there after his death on May 10, 1863.

[1] The Lexington City Council unanimously voted to rename the cemetery in 2020 following the George Floyd protests,[1] and the renaming was unanimously approved on September 3.

[citation needed] The plot of Jackson and his family received a sculpture of Jackson in 1895, created by sculptor Edward V.