Blandford Cemetery
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Blandford Cemetery

Petersburg, Petersburg City, Virginia, USA

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Blandford Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in the Commonwealth of Virginia, surpassed only by Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C. Approximately 14 years after the Episcopal Church in Petersburg moved from Blandford Church to the site of the current courthouse in downtown Petersburg, the city purchased the abandoned church building and four surrounding acres in 1819 to establish a cemetery. In 1851, the city directed that a portion of the cemetery be set aside as "a burying ground for persons of color." The cemetery is still an active burial ground, covering 189 acres, and "contains one of the finest collections of cast and wrought iron fences in the United States."
Blandford Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in the Commonwealth of Virginia, surpassed only by Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C. Approximately 14 years after the Episcopal Church in Petersburg moved from Blandford Church to the site of the current courthouse in downtown Petersburg, the city purchased the abandoned church building and four surrounding acres in 1819 to establish a cemetery. In 1851, the city directed that a portion of the cemetery be set aside as "a burying ground for persons of color." The cemetery is still an active burial ground, covering 189 acres, and "contains one of the finest collections of cast and wrought iron fences in the United States."

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