Explore Oak Grove Cemetery and see the statue and Jackson’s grave, and find those of other notable Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers.

   Oak Grove Cemetery on South Main Street grew around the old Lexington Presbyterian Church, which was built on the edge of town in 1789. The site of the old church can be seen in the cemetery beside Main Street near the Preston family plot.
        In addition to Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, over a hundred Confederate and Revolutionary War veterans are buried here. Other notables interred in the cemetery include John Mercer Brooke, the designer of the ironclad ship C.S.S. Virginia (often referred to by its previous name, Merrimack); Gen. William N. Pendleton, Lee’s chief of artillery; early presidents of Washington College and VMI and two Virginia governors. Jackson’s sister-in-law, Margaret Junkin Preston, a noted poet and wife of Col. J. T. L. Preston, one of the founders of VMI, is also buried there. A marker just inside the main gate lists many of the famous and interesting people buried in the cemetery and locates their graves.
        The statue of Jackson by Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine, was dedicated in 1891, and rededicated in 1991. The 1891 dedication drew one of the largest crowds ever assembled in Lexington.