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The 1-acre property was part of the 10-acre North Graveyard, one of the original cemeteries created in Columbus. From 1813 to 1864, it was the primary cemetery for Columbus-area residents. A portion was removed in 1872, and the remainder was moved in 1881. All discovered remains will be reburied at Green Lawn Cemetery. [16] [17]
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.
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 cemetery was the only burial ground in Columbus through the 1810s and 1820s; the 1799-established Old Franklinton Cemetery was annexed into Columbus along with the rest of Franklinton in 1859. At one time called "the Grave Yard of the City of Columbus", a new graveyard opened on present-day Livingston Avenue in 1841.
An abandoned vintage automobile A car graveyard in Kaufdorf, September 2008, before it was cleared. An automobile graveyard or car cemetery is a place in which decrepit road vehicles reside while waiting to be destroyed or recycled or are left abandoned and decaying.
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]
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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.