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Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum (200 acres), located at 118 Woodland Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, is one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the United States. Woodland was incorporated in 1842 by John Whitten Van Cleve, the first male child born in Dayton. [2] He was the son of Benjamin Van Cleve and Mary Whitten Van Cleve.
The second largest African American cemetery in the area, Woodland is surpassed only by Evergreen Cemetery.The cemetery was founded and designed by Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell, Jr. [2] The cemetery is designed in the rural cemetery style and incorporates winding roads on terraced slopes and laid out with concrete roads and pathways.
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. It fell into extreme disrepair, and most of its outstanding architectural features dismantled or demolished.
Woodland Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 1020 South Fifth Street in Quincy, Illinois. Planned by politician John Wood and opened in 1846, the cemetery is a product of America's rural cemetery movement of the mid-nineteenth century.
Woodland Cemetery (formerly known as Grove Cemetery and Woodlawn Cemetery) is a public, city-owned cemetery located at 428 Jerome Street in the city of Monroe in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] [2] It occupies 10 acres (4.0 ha) and contains over 6,500 graves. Founded in 1810, it is one of Michigan's oldest public cemeteries.
A woodland cemetery is designed so that the landscape is given a more prominent position, and grave monuments, chapels and other buildings are given less prominent positions. The trees of the cemetery might originally have been a woodland or a tighter forest where a portion of the trees have been removed, and some of the trees might be planted ...
Woodland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, having been established in 1848, before Des Moines was the state capital. [1] It is a municipal cemetery owned and operated by the Des Moines Parks and Recreation Department. It covers 69 acres (28 ha) at the corner of 20th Street and Woodland Ave [2] and is the site of over 80,000 ...
Woodland Cemetery (also known as West Newark Cemetery or the German Cemetery) is a 36.5-acre (0.148 km 2) nonsectarian burial ground located at 670 South 10th Street in the city of Newark, New Jersey.