Green Hill Cemetery is located in Greensboro, North Carolina 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. The Green Hill Cemetery Gatekeeper's House, located within the cemetery, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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, The Gravedancers, was shot at Green Hill Cemetery.
In June 2020, a monument marking the mass grave of Confederate soldiers, owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was vandalized and torn down.
Notable burials Joseph M. Bryan (1896–1995), businessman Kathleen Price Bryan (1900–1984), heiress and philanthropist Kay Hagan (1953–2019), US Senator Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919–2001), US Congressman Ethel Clay Price (1874–1943), nurse and socialite Julian Price (1867–1946), businessman Lucy Henderson Owen Robertson (1850–1930), academic and college president Alfred Moore Scales (1827–1892), Civil War general and US Congressman Addie Donnell Van Noppen (1870–1964), historian
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