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Restoring history
6 minutes Posted Feb 17, 2021 at 3:00 pm.
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The Woodland Restoration Foundation, a group dedicated to preserving the grounds of Woodland Cemetery, is in the process of fundraising and renovating the Eastern Henrico cemetery’s former chapel into a museum to house artifacts and memorabilia of those interred at Woodland. Woodland Cemetery, established in 1917 and located just north of I-64 at Mechanicsville Turnpike, is the second-largest historically African American cemetery in the area at 29 acres, next to the 60-acre Evergreen Cemetery. Woodland was created two years before perpetual care in cemeteries was required legally. Marvin Harris, the cemetery’s owner and the creator of the Woodland Restoration Foundation,...

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