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Woodstock is located on State Route 559 about 12 miles (19 km) north of Mechanicsburg, Ohio. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 0.29 square miles (0.75 km 2 ), all of it land.
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.
However, burial lot owners and relatives of people buried at the cemetery successfully defeated the annexation over fears that the city would run a street through the cemetery. [1] [9] In 1943, St. Bernard and Elmwood Place (now a village) withdrew from the township as well, reducing it to only the cemetery and $517.35 in assets. [1] [4] [10]
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The cemetery began with 40 acres (160,000 m 2) southeast of Dayton and has been enlarged to its present size of 200 acres (0.81 km 2). Over 3,000 trees and 165 specimens of native Midwestern trees and woody plants grace the rolling hills. Many of the trees are more than a century old and 9 have been designated "Ohio Champions".
The area around Barnesville was settled by pioneer families, mostly Quaker, around the early 19th century. These early settlers arrived in the area after leaving Maryland, Pennsylvania and the southern states. A meeting house was built and cemetery was established to the east of the future site of Barnesville.
The cemetery was formally established in 1854. The cemetery began an endowment fund in 1922 that lead to it becoming one of the most endowed cemeteries, measured by dollar per acre, in the state of Ohio. [1] Many of the original cemeteries within the city, then still the Village of Youngstown, had their interments moved to Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 ...