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Historical Highway MarkersEvergreen CemeterySA-91
In 1891, Evergreen Cemetery was established as a preeminent resting place for many of Virginia's most influential African-American residents. These include Maggie L. Walker, president and founder of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, and John Mitchell, Jr., champion of African-American rights and editor of the Richmond Planet newspaper. J.Henry Brown, a stonemason by trade, designed many of the tombstones erected here. By the early 1970s, the cemetery had fallen into disrepair. In 1975, volunteers from the Maggie L. Walker Historical Foundation led an effort to restore Evergreen to its original glory.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Veronica A. Davis, Here I Lay my Burdens Down: A History of the Black Cemeteries of Richmond, VA, Dietz Press, Richmond, 2003, p. 48 and 55-7; Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope, Broadway Books, New York, 1998, p.202; Gertrude Woodruff Marlowe, A Right Worthy Grand Mission, Howard University Press, Washington, DC, 2003; Selden Richardson, Built by Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, VA, Dietz Press, Richmond, 2007, p. 45. |