September 22nd through September 25th
Shockoe Hill Cemetery, 4th & Hospital Streets
Haunts of Richmond teamed up with the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery and the Edgar Allan Poe Museum
to present this dramatic, nighttime tour of Shockoe Hill Cemetery. The tour was led by Poe himself (played by Mr. Chris Patrick), who guided visitors
through his old haunting grounds and interacted with the "spirits" of those he knew while living in Richmond.
Thanks to everyone who came out for the Haunted Homecoming Tour
Thanks to you, we were able to sell out 4 of 5 performances!
Proceeds benefit the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery.
Saturdays at 1:00PM through August
Departs from the Libby Prison marker at 2000 East Cary Street
(just outside the Virginia Holocaust Museum)
In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Haunts of Richmond presents Uncivil Wards: Richmond's Civil War Hospitals and Prisons.
An intriguing dark history(not a ghost tour) tour of some of the sites of extreme suffering during the Civil War years.
150 years ago, during the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of people from all over North America unexpectedly found
themselves admitted to wards in the capital of the Confederacy. Some were transported to Richmond for life-saving care,
some were marched in at gunpoint as enemy combatants, and still others were brought in chains to be auctioned as property.
The Uncivil Wards tour takes guests on a journey through the section of old Richmond where the citizens struggled to cope
with and quarter the overwhelming flood of war casualties and prisoners of war, and where African-American slaves were incarcerated
while awaiting their fate on the auction block.
The tour visits several of the over fifty Civil War hospital and prison sites in the city of Richmond, including the building
that housed the Second Alabama Hospital, the site of the infamous Libby Prison, The Mason's Hall (hospital),
and the site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail. Guests will learn the history of key hospital and prison sites before, during, and
after the war, along with the harrowing tales of those who inhabited them.
The tour begins in the Tobacco Row area of Shockoe Bottom at the Libby Prison markeron the flood wall at 2000 East Cary Street, just outside the Virginia Holocaust Museum. Guests
may park in the lower parking lot of the Holocaust Museum on Dock Street (behind the flood wall).
The Uncivil Wards tour is a walking tour of approximately 90 minutes.
Please note that this is not a ghost tour.
Space on walking tours is limited.
Advance Purchase Highly Recommended.
Check available dates & buy tickets online!
To purchase tickets by phone, please call
(866) 782-2661
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