Situated on gently rolling terrain in western Henrico County, just outside the City of Richmond, the 30.5-acre Woodland Cemetery stands as a visible reminder of the efforts put forth by local Black leaders to provide Black residents in the region with a dignified burial when faced with persistent discrimination. Opened in 1917, during the Jim Crow era in Virginia, Woodland Cemetery remains active and today contains an estimated 30,000 burials, though many markers are no longer visible. The cemetery’s curvilinear pathways and bucolic landscape design are characteristic of the “landscape lawn” and rural cemetery movements that became popular across the United States during the mid-19th century. Woodland Cemetery is the final resting place of a number of prominent Black citizens, including Richmond Planet editor, politician, banker, and civil rights activist John Mitchell, Jr. (1863-1929); Methodist minister, teacher, and Civil War veteran Rev. William Washington Browne (1849-1897); Baptist minister and founder of Richmond’s Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. John Jasper (1812-1901); physician and public health leader Dr. Zenobia G. Gilpin (1898-1948); pioneering architect Charles Thaddeus Russell (1875-1952); and tennis legend and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, Jr. (1943-1993).