Green Hill Cemetery is located in

Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...

and it on 51 acres of rolling land. Opened in 1877, it is Greensboro's oldest publicly operated cemetery. The cemetery is managed by the Greensboro Parks & Recreation Department. Tours of the cemetery are held by Friends of Green Hill Cemetery, a non-profit organization. Green Hill Cemetery is also home to a plethora of plants and more than 700 different types of trees. They are cataloged and maintained by the Friends of Green Hill Cemetery and the city of Greensboro. The 2006 horror film, ''

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'', was shot at Green Hill Cemetery. In June 2020, a monument marking the mass grave of

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, owned by the

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, was vandalized and torn down.

Notable burials

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(1953–2019), US Senator * Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919–2001), US Congressman *

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