Barton Heights, and Mount Olivet are inactive cemeteries, burials are no longer made there.
The city of Richmond has now reclaimed a portion of each of the two African burial grounds with plans in the works for memorization of both sites.
The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground is zoned as light industrial, and a portion of it lies beneath I-95.
The various parcels of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground are zoned from Residential (Multi-Family) to Heavy Industrial, with roads, I-64, and CSX rail road tracks run through it, in addition to some unacknowledged portions of it having been incorporated into the Hebrew Cemetery.
The main target of the grave snatchers or robbers, (also called resurrectionists) was the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground.