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The Stories of Strength — Honoring Black Milwaukeeans walking tour is Nov. 23. Many Milwaukee Black historical leaders are buried in Forest Home Cemetery. This tour will tell you about their impact.
Forest Home Cemetery is home to 28 Milwaukee mayors, seven Wisconsin governors, noted industrialists and over 110,000 burials. [8] The Newhall House Monument is a mass grave for 64 people of the Newhall House fire of 1883, in which 71 individuals (43 unidentified) died. George A. Abert, member of the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State ...
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
Experts believed there was only one surviving ancient Indigenous mound in Milwaukee. Now, two rediscovered mounds bring that number to three.
Using the earliest minutes of the cemetery board — from June 4, 1873 — NCHS Board Member Jerry Fiola has mapped out a path for an approximately 90-minute tour. The tours are offered ...
It is located at 2405 W. Forest Home Ave., in the Forest Home Cemetery Section 33 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The bronze sculpture was cast in 1896. Its dimensions are 62 x 41 x 23 in. The concrete base it stands on is 13 ½ x 21 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.
Oscar Werwath (1880 [1] – March 20, 1948 [2]) was the founder and first president of the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.He is buried at Forest Home Cemetery.