Walking with the dead!

The Riverside Cemetery encompasses 87 acres of rolling hills and flower gardens. The Ashville Cemetery Company bought land in 1885 to establish what was first called The Asheville Cemetery and later named the Riverside Cemetery. It is still an active cemetery with more than 13,000 people buried here, 9,000 monuments, and 12 family mausoleums. Riverside is the burial place to noted authors Thomas Wolfe and William Sidney Porter, better known as O. Henry. You can learn about Confederate generals James Martin, Robert B. Vance and Thomas Clingman.