The building was a quarantine building for Confederate soldiers. A tape plays during exterior tours. You can look in the windows. The Pest House is the topic of a video played in the new Cemetery Center. The new center includes a museum featuring antique mourning items, a small gift shop and restrooms.
Cemetery is open dawn to dusk.
It's all free. Permanent collection includes Civil War uniforms, medical supplies and weapons. Open daily 10 am-4 pm. Fort Early , Vermont and Fort avenues - Part of the earthen defenses remain here. Map recalls 1864 battle when Confederate Gen. Jubal Early blunted an effort by Union Gen. David Hunter to disrupt important Lynchburg transportation, manufacturing and hospital roles.