Cleaning up Everegreen Cemetery

The "Penny Cemetery Fund"

The "Penny Cemetery Fund" was created to assist the volunteer efforts to restore the historic, African-American Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond's East End. Although this privately owned cemetery is listed on the State & National registers of historic places, its upkeep has been difficult, and it is "returning to forest." Markers and headstones have been lost under brush and heavy growth for decades.

Volunteers worked all day Saturday, November 7th, from 8 am to 4 pm helping clear one or more parcels containing the graves of Richmond notables, Maggie Walker, John Mitchell, Jr., and Rev. J. Andrew Bowler.

Volunteers are needed for another clean up next weekend (minus the heavy equipment) to remove the leaves and un-earth the dozens of markers and stones that are buried in the soil. If you would like to volunteer please email Deanna Lewis at Deanna@pennycemeteryfund.org