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Richmond still has no visitation plan for mass Confederate gravesite on DPU property
Richmond still has no visitation plan for mass Confederate gravesite on DPU property
(WRIC) - City discovered some graves when building facility decades ago, continued anyway
It’s been nearly nine months since Richmond officials revealed that hundreds of Confederate soldiers were buried beneath a city-owned property in Manchester, and no plan has yet been put in place to allow researchers or families to visit. The city also continues to use the property for utility-related purposes.
In late May 2025, Richmond officials released a report regarding 472 probable and 270 possible grave sites — totaling 742 — that had been located underneath a city-owned property at 2313 Wise St. using ground-penetrating radar.
Historical evidence suggests that the mass burial site was used as a municipal cemetery prior to the establishment of the nearby Maury Cemetery in 1874. It’s believed that many of the internments are Confederate soldiers who died at military hospitals during the Civil War, though records relating to their identities are limited.
According to the report, the site’s burial pattern is dense, with many people appearing to have been buried on top of one another — something described as “a common occurrence in burial grounds used over a long period or…
If these communists disguised as American citizens would put as much effort into the welfare of the Citizens of the City of Richmond as they do in crying about the grave of what has been declared as War Veterans by the United States government, then Richmond might will become the great city it was of yesteryear. But that's not what these communists want they want to destroy our history and the honor that is ours by virtue of our Southern Heritage.