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Historic site. Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond. An American Civil War memorial was erected there in 1891, and chapel constructed in 1902.
Cuyahoga County. West gate of Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County. Calvary Cemetery in Garfield Heights. Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland. Holy Cross Cemetery in Brook Park. Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Heights. Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Mayfield Cemetery in Cleveland Heights. Monroe Street Cemetery in Cleveland.
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres (2.97 km 2)) is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery [2] and is recognized as a US National Historic Landmark.
North Graveyard. The North Graveyard, also known as the North Cemetery and Old North Cemetery, was a burial ground in Columbus, Ohio. It was situated in modern-day Downtown Columbus and was established in 1813, a year after the city was founded. Graves at the site were moved beginning in the 1850s into the 1880s.
History. Glendale Cemetery was founded in 1839 by Dr. J.D. Commons. Here statues of prominent citizens, an avenue of stately mausoleums and a collection of headstones tell the story of Akron's past. Originally known as Akron Rural Cemetery, Commons modeled the design of the cemetery after Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery, which he visited in 1838.
February 23, 1973 [1] Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus. The city founders preserved the Great Mound from destruction by establishing the city cemetery around it in 1801. The city of Marietta was developed in 1788 by pioneers ...
Added to NRHP. August 24, 1979. The Pioneer Memorial Cemetery (also known as Columbia Baptist Church Cemetery) is a historic pioneer cemetery in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is located on a small hill overlooking Lunken Airport [ 2] at 333 Wilmer Avenue on Cincinnati's east side.
Added to NRHP. June 4, 1986. Woodland Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 6901 Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Established in 1853, it became Cleveland's main public cemetery after its founding and remained so for the next half-century.