Old City Cemetery is an extraordinary 27-acre public garden, “history park,” and wedding venue located in the heart of Lynchburg, Virginia. Despite being an active place of burial and remembrance, it is one of the busiest and most popular attractions in the City.

Join us for this year’s Candlelight Tours and follow your Spirit Guide on a journey through time as you encounter real-life cemetery residents from beyond the grave! Our candle-lit grounds are not intended to frighten our guests, but rather to immerse them in this living history event.

The entrance to Old City Cemetery is located at the corner of Fourth and Taylor Streets in downtown Lynchburg. For GPS directions, use “401 Taylor Street, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24501.” If you get lost, please call the Cemetery Center at (434) 847–1465.

Old City Cemetery Quick Guide; Volunteer at OCC; Visiting the Cemetery; Photography and Filming Policies; Come Visit the Goats; Gallery; Contact; History & Museums. Cemetery Personalities & Biographies; The Pest House & Dr. Terrell; African Burial Customs; Museums; Lynchburg Burial Grounds;

To make Old City Cemetery a sustainable and enduring landmark that engages and educates the greater Lynchburg community and beyond, through it’s history and horticulture. Vision: A Landscape that remembers, comforts, and inspires.

Cemetery Center houses a museum of American mourning customs and artifacts, burial records in the office of the Southern Memorial Association, a gift shop, and public handicapped-accessible restrooms. The Lee Reading Room, Taylor Conservatory, and …

In the nineteenth-century, Lynchburg residents who contracted such contagious diseases as smallpox or measles were quarantined in the Pest House, which was originally located near Third and Wise Streets, within what is now the Old City Cemetery.

There are five small “house” museums on the grounds of the Old City Cemetery that interpret the history of the Cemetery, the City of Lynchburg, and the surrounding counties. Each museum, except the Mourning Museum, is designed to be self-guided.

Old City Cemetery Quick Guide; Volunteer at OCC; Visiting the Cemetery; Photography and Filming Policies; Come Visit the Goats; Gallery; Contact; History & Museums. Cemetery Personalities & Biographies; The Pest House & Dr. Terrell; African Burial Customs; Museums; Lynchburg Burial Grounds;

Lynchburg’s first “rural cemetery”, modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Mass., and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Designed by famous landscape architect, John Notman, who designed Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond), Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia), and Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati).