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Cedar Grove Cemetery

Posted to: Historic Sites Portsmouth

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Hours:

Mon. - Fri., 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sat., 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Cedar Grove is the oldest city-owned cemetery in Portsmouth and was established in 1832. The cemetery is noted for its funerary art and the civic, business, maritime, religious and military leaders who are buried there and is listed on the Virginia and national registers of historic sites.

Cedar Grove Cemetery
Between Effingham Street and Fort Lane in Olde Towne Portsmouth
Portsmouth Va
(757) 488-1397, genhank@bellatlantic.net.

www.cedargrovecemetery.org

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Beautiful & historic

Submitted by sabrinar84860 on Mon, 09/01/2008 at 11:47 am.

We drove over to Cedar Grove when we found out that my husband's great grandparents are buried there. It's a great old cemetery and it is kept up a little nicer than Oak Grove, which appears to be abandoned and is down right spooky.

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