Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia)

Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Grove Cemetery
	Gravesite of General Stonewall Jackson and his family
Details
Location	314 S. Main St., Lexington, Virginia 24450
Country	United States
Coordinates	37°46′49″N 79°26′43″W / 37.7804097°N 79.4453157°W
No. of graves	~7,500
Website	Information at Lexington Visitor's Center
Find a Grave	Oak Grove Cemetery
	Cemetery location

The Oak Grove Cemetery, originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campuses of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020.^[1] Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia, and Margaret Junkin Preston, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".^[2]

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[2] Virginia is for Lovers (i.e., Virginia Tourism Corporation). "Oak Grove Cemetery". Retrieved May 2, 2021.

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