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Richmond city staff and partners2 weeks

The city of Richmond’s latest weekly newsletter, “Hey Richmond,” offers a key update in the saga of the city’s African American cemeteries. Briefly, in 2024, the city of Richmond formally acquired ownership of East End Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, and Forest View Cemetery, three African American cemeteries that had fallen into legal limbo with the dissol...

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RIP, Bill2 months

This past fall, I got to attend an open house event at the Valentine for educators. The museum’s staff and collections are always excellent. I’ve taken my students there for field trips, and I have used the collections extensively for my cemetery research. That evening’s open house event was lively and inspiring, and I got […]

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RIP, Eddie3 months

Richmond does not have many architectural historians. We lost one of our best on December 15, with the passing of Edward Slipek. There have been noteworthy tributes to his work, by Rich Griset in his beloved Style Weekly here and here, by Scott Bass and Harry Kollatz in Richmond Magazine here. His official obituary is […]

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Barton Heights walking tour6 months

On Saturday, 9/13/2025, the Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory and its community partners celebrated the release of a walking tour guide for Richmond’s historic Barton Heights Cemeteries. The cemeteries themselves, founded in 1815 by a society of free black Richmonders, do not have welcome signage or tour support. In an effort to provide a resource to area […]

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