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Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Omaha, designated an Omaha Landmark [9] Pleasant Hill Cemetery [10] Shipley Cemetery [11] Mount Hope Cemetery [12] Bird-Ritchie Cemetery [13] Cutler's Park Cemetery [14]
Lincoln Memorial Park was first used as a graveyard in 1924 on land owned by a F.B. Miller (a white realtor). In 1929, the burial ground was purchased by Kelsey Pharr, who was a black funeral director. Mr. Pharr was a native of South Carolina, who had studied embalming in Boston and had moved to Miami in the early 1900s.
Wyuka Cemetery was established in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, which sought to provide a cemetery for the state capital city founded two years prior. [3] The trustees rejected the first cemetery site along Salt Creek to the west of Lincoln due to flooding concerns and instead purchased 80 acres of land east ...
In the center of Hillcrest portion of the cemetery, above the Memorial Lawn section, is the Singing Tower. The Art Deco Singing Tower was built in 1931, and was modeled after the famous Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida. [1] The Tower plays music daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. [1] A funeral home located within the cemetery perimeter opened in ...
Lincoln's name and image appear in numerous other places, such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, [9] Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana, [10] Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois, [11] and Lincoln ...
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Abraham Lincoln – also known as The Gettysburg Lincoln – is a bronze statue of President Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, located on the grounds of the Nebraska State Capitol. The monument was commissioned by the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Association of Lincoln, Nebraska, and produced in 1912. The statue was cast in bronze by Jno.
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