1 — The hilltop at 5th and Hospital streets that was part of the original Grave Yard for Free People of Colour and For Slaves,
2 — The enlarged footprint of the cemetery that grew through the years and sprawled south of Hospital Street,
3 — The northern portion of the forgotten Potters Field, the post- Civil War name of the cemetery,
4 — The location of the colored Richmond Alms House where residents were buried (the site is part of Shockoe Hill Cemetery),
5 — The white Richmond Alms House, now an apartment building for the elderly,
6 — Shockoe Hill Cemetery,
7 — Hebrew Cemetery, a portion of which incorporates a small section of the Potters Field
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One woman's crusade brings attention to long-forgotten black cemetery
A long closed mechanic’s shop sits on a hilltop at 5th and Hospital streets north of Downtown — just a stone’s thrown from the handsome, historic and well-tended private Hebrew and public Shockoe Hill cemeteries.
