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Mount Auburn Cemetery, a rural cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts, was the model for Mount Olivet. [10] During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mount Olivet was known as one of the "big five" cemeteries in Washington, D.C. [11] From the start, Mount Olivet was racially integrated. Most cemeteries in the city were not.
Mount Olivet Cemetery (usually abbreviated and stylized as Mt. Olivet Cemetery) is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.It is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization that is otherwise administered independently from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and any of the various Catholic ...
Mount Olivet was consecrated in 1885, and was the first Catholic cemetery to be established in the south side of Chicago. There are over 142,200 people buried at the cemetery, with over 150 annual interments. The cemetery is 93 acres (38 ha) in size.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas. With its first burial in 1907, Mount Olivet is the first perpetual care cemetery in the South . Its 130-acre site is located northeast of downtown Fort Worth at the intersection of North Sylvania Avenue and 28th Street adjacent to the Oakhurst Historic District .
Mount Olivet Cemetery is located in the Maspeth neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Named for Jerusalem 's Mount of Olives , it was incorporated in 1850 under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847. Originally established as an Episcopal cemetery, that restriction was lifted in 1851.
On October 4, 1852, a group of Maryland citizens, including then-lawyer Charles Edward Trail, founded the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company. [2]: 226–228 The company purchased 32 acres of land, which was designed by James Belden to incorporate walkways and driveways throughout the grounds.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery operated by the Archdiocese of Denver. The cemetery is located at 12801 W. 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, Colorado . It is the first cemetery owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Denver, the second being Saint Simeon Catholic Cemetery in Aurora, Colorado.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in the Dayton section of Newark in the U.S. state of New Jersey founded in 1871. [1] It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark . Mount Olivet, or Mount of Olives, ( Hebrew : הַר הַזֵּיתִים , Har ha-Zeitim ; Arabic : جبل الزيتون, الطور , Jabal al-Zaytun , Al-Tur ) is a ...