The cemetery was constructed on land known as "Harvie's Woods" that was once owned by William Byrd II . In 1869 a ninety-foot-high granite Pyramid was built as a memorial to the more than 18,000 enlisted men of the Confederate Army who died in the American Civil War . Many Union soldiers are also interred here.
Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmonds major tourist attractions. There are many local landscape, Hollywood Cemetery is also frequented by many of the local art students attending Virginia Commonwealth University .
Among the notables interred here are:
- Alden Aaroe , broadcast journalist
- Joseph R. Anderson , civil engineer, industrialist, soldier
- John M. Brockenbrough , Confederate Army Colonel
- James Branch Cabell , novelist
- Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate States of America
- Varina Howell Davis , Confederate First Lady
- Richard B. Garnett , Confederate Army General
- Lewis Ginter , tobacco executive, philanthopist
- Ellen Glasgow , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- Henry Heth Confederate Army General
- Edward Johnson , Confederate Army General
- Eppa Hunton , soldier, politician
- John D. Imboden , Confederate Army General, statesman
- Mary Johnston , bestselling novelist
- Fitzhugh Lee , Confederate Army General
- William Mayo , Colonial engineer
- Polk Miller , musician
- James Monroe , 5th President of the United States
- Elizabeth Kortright Monroe , U.S. First Lady
- Emma Gilham Page railway industrialist
- William Nelson Page co-founder of the Virginian Railway
- George Pickett , Confederate Army General
- John Garland Pollard , Governor of Virginia
- Lewis F. Powell , U.S. Supreme Court justice
- John Randolph , politician
- William Alexander Smith , politician
- John Tyler , 10th President of the United States
- Julia Tyler , U.S. First Lady
- J.E.B. Stuart , Confederate Army General
- Henry A. Wise , Governor of Virginia, Confederate Army General
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