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  2. Showmen's Rest - Wikipedia

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    Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred.

  3. Woodlawn Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Woodlawn Cemetery (West Palm Beach, Florida) Woodlawn Cemetery (Carbondale, Illinois), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jackson County, Illinois; Woodlawn Cemetery (Forest Park, Illinois), including Showmen's Rest; Woodlawn Cemetery Gates and Shelter, Washington, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Iowa

  4. List of cemeteries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Der Stadt Friedhof, Fredericksburg – pioneer cemetery; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin

  5. Developer wants to build homes on land that is part of a ...

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    TAMPA — Since 1888, three acres along the 3500 block of North Boulevard have been designated a final resting place, first as part of the city’s larger Woodlawn Cemetery and today as the ...

  6. A look at Woodlawn cemetery created by Henry Flagler in 1904 ...

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    Woodlawn cemetery was created by Henry Flagler in 1904 on a pineapple growing field in West Palm. 5 interesting facts about historical burial site.

  7. Woodlawn Cemetery tours kick off - AOL

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    Oct. 5—LIMA — A cemetery is like a never-ending book, according to Woodlawn Cemetery tour guide George MacDonell. Around a dozen people came out Saturday to ride the Downtown Lima Trolley ...

  8. Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2005 - Wikipedia

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    ...that Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918?...that the load carried in a Schnabel car makes up part of the car structure itself?

  9. List of rural cemeteries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Evergreen cemetery is part of the Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District and played a strategic role in the Battle of Gettysburg. [6] It was the site of the dedication of the adjacent National Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address from a platform in Evergreen Cemetery. [7] [8] Greendale Cemetery: 1853: Meadville, Pennsylvania