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Shrum Mound is a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park in Columbus, Ohio. [2] The mound was created around 2,000 years ago by the Pre-Columbian Native American Adena culture. [2]
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.
This list of cemeteries in Ohio includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The R Section of the cemetery, county-owned and used for North Graveyard reburials since the 1800s, was marked with an artwork named Departed Denizens, a 32,000-lb. granite boulder with a bronze wolf sculpture atop it in 2020. The sculpture is dedicated to these early city residents, and was designed by Ohio artist Mike Major.
The Old Franklinton Cemetery is a cemetery in the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The cemetery is the oldest in Central Ohio, established in 1799. Other names for it include the Franklinton Cemetery or Pioneer Burying Ground. Franklinton founder Lucas Sullivant was buried there initially, later reinterred in Green Lawn Cemetery. [1 ...
In February 2021 the cemetery opened to the public for the first time in more than 50 years. By then the Columbus Cemetery Association had succeeded in listing Green Lawn Abbey on the National Register of Historic Places .
The cemetery was established in part to replace the old St. Patrick's Cemetery, which was located in downtown Columbus and had become encircled by the city's growth. [4] A plot of just over 25 acres (10 ha) of land, outside the city's original limits, was purchased in 1865 by John F. Zimmer in trust for the Diocese of Columbus, and burials on the site also began that year. [1]
Union Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Olentangy River Road near Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Owing to its location near the Ohio State University , it has been the chosen resting place for numerous Buckeye luminaries and Columbus politicians.