Shockoe Hill

It extends from the downtown area, including where the Virginia State Capitol complex sits, north almost a mile to a point where the hill falls off sharply to the winding path of Shockoe Creek.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery is the burial place of Chief Justice John Marshall, American Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, and many other notables.

The graves were located to the north and to the east of the City Hospital building (outside the eastern wall of Shockoe Hill Cemetery), and also in the vicinity of the Poorhouse.

[4] The Hebrew Cemetery of Richmond, founded in 1816, contains within it what is reputed to be the largest Jewish military burial ground in the world outside of Tel Aviv.

The new Almshouse building first saw service as an American Civil War hospital and which in 1864-65 briefly served as the home of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets.