Memorial to Confederate Women - Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
N 37° 32.443 W 077° 27.325
18S E 283066 N 4157691
A Memorial to the Confederate Women of Virginia, located in Richmond's Historic Hollywood Cemetery
Waymark Code: WMN40
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2006
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This Memorial dedicated to the Confederate Women of Virginia stand at the base of the 90-foot Confederate Memorial Pyramid in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. This memorial is located in the cemetery's Confederate Section where some 18,000 Confederate Veterans rest.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
"A Memorial to the Confederate Women of Virginia, 1861-1865. The Legislature of Virginia of 1914 has at the solicitation of Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Virginia,placed in perpetual care this section where lie buried 18,000 Confederate Soldiers."
Date Installed or Dedicated: 04/01/1914
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Hollywood Memorial Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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