Attractions

Elmwood Cemetery

238 E. Princess Anne Rd., Norfolk, VA 23510 (757) 441-2576

Elmwood Cemetery was established in 1853. It is a Victorian Garden Cemetery, and the final resting place for hundreds of Civil War soldiers, many of Norfolk’s founders and Virginia Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860). Elmwood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 and is now commemorated with a Historic Highway Marker along Princess Anne Road.

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