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This included 6,000 veterans buried in seven military sections (thousands more are buried on private lots), of which 15 were generals [25] and five Medal of Honor recipients. [30] Portions of two of the military sections are National Cemeteries. Sections at Green Lawn Cemetery were originally lettered in the order in which they were developed.
Find a Grave Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 273 acres (1.10 km 2 ), and as of 2024 had over 50,000 interments.
The monument was erected in 1902 and commemorates the 2,260 Confederate soldiers buried at the site. [5] [6] The memorial is 17 feet (5.2 m) and includes a bronze figure of a soldier standing on a granite arch, holding a rifle. Its original wooden arch, which was inscribed with the word "AMERICANS", was replaced with the current stone arch in ...
Camp Chase was an American Civil War training and prison camp established in May 1861, on land leased by the U.S. Government. [4] It replaced the much smaller Camp Jackson which was established by Ohio Governor William Dennison Jr as a place for Ohio's union volunteers to meet. [4]
The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [3] which originally opened in 1955 [4] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [5] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [6]
The building currently holds the offices of Franklin County Public Health (the county's health department), Franklin County Veterans Services, and still retains a war memorial.
Balser Hess, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, established a farm on the site in the early 19th century. Hess is thought to be the first burial there, in 1806. It was established as a public cemetery in 1847. [1] The cemetery lies just east of State Route 315, and is responsible for that highway's infamous "hospital curve."
The North Graveyard, also known as the North Cemetery and Old North Cemetery, was a burial ground in Columbus, Ohio. It was situated in modern-day Downtown Columbus and was established in 1813, a year after the city was founded. Graves at the site were moved beginning in the 1850s into the 1880s.