| Greenlawn Cemetery | |
| Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
| Designated Other1 Date: | September 14, 1998[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 121-0065 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Location: | 2700 Parish Ave., Newport News, Virginia |
| Coordinates: | 36.9972°N -76.4042°W |
| Builder: | Lawson and Newton; Couper, O.D., Ennis |
| Added: | February 5, 1999 |
| Refnum: | 99000139 |
Greenlawn Memorial Park, also known as Greenlawn Cemetery, is located at 2700 Parish Avenue, Newport News, Virginia. Greenlawn Memorial Park is a 50acres cemetery located where two natural streams, Mill Dam Creek and Salters Creek, come together. The cemetery has been in continuous operation, serving the Newport News and Hampton, Virginia, since 1888. There are approximately 20,000 burials in the cemetery. Greenlawn Memorial Park is on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]
Greenlawn Cemetery was developed by the Newport News Cemetery Company beginning February 14, 1888. The incorporators were T. H. Gordon, Louis Bremond, I. E. White, Theodore Livezey, E. Clayton, E. B. Smith, T. E. Monis and M. B. Crowell. By the terms of the charter, they were authorized to associate others with them. Walter A. Post, George Benjamin West, Carter M. Braxton, W. B. Livezey, C. B. Nelms and W. J. Nelms were added as associates.
At the center of the cemetery is a 25feet obelisk erected in 1900 marking the mass grave of 163 Confederate Prisoners of War. The 163 Confederate soldiers were re-interred there in 1900. These were POWs who died in the nearby Newport News POW camp between April 27, 1865 and July 5, 1865. At the foot of this monument is a granite ledger with the names, rank, state and unit of each soldier. Soldiers from 13 southern states are represented.
The cemetery office building is a 1936 Sears Catalog Home.