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Shockoe Hill Cemetery is a historic municipal cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, on Shockoe Hill near downtown.

The City of Richmond established it as a public cemetery, and city surveyor Richard Young laid it out in 1824.

It contains about 36,000 interments, including Chief Justice John Marshall, engineer Claudius Crozet, and Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew.

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