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Green Lawn Cemetery is privately owned by the nonprofit Green Lawn Cemetery Association. [41] The cemetery is one of Ohio's most prominent rural (or "garden") cemeteries. [42] Any member of the public may purchase a plot. As of 2021, Green Lawn Cemetery contained 360 acres (1.5 km 2), making it Ohio's second-largest cemetery. [43]
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 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]
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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.
While preservation efforts, special events and preservation-focused fund raising continue, the Abbey is once again accepting interments. In 2019, the Columbus Cemetery Association, business owner of Green Lawn Abbey, entered an agreement with Memorial Properties, manager of the Green Lawn Cemetery, a nearby though unrelated business, to promote the mausoleum and oversee new sales.
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 ...
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