SPRING GROVE CEMETERY
Located at 4521 Spring Grove
Avenue this is not only the largest "rural" cemetery in the country
(733 acres), it is also a bird sanctuary, arboretum, and park (with dozens of
centuries-old trees, 21 of which are the largest of their species in Ohio). It was
consecrated in 1845 largely due to Dr. Daniel Drake who saw the need for a burial ground
outside of the fast growing city after his wife died and was interred at
Washington Cemetery. He saw first hand the deplorable conditions of this and
other cemeteries within the city.
I will try and list just some of the incredible number of the
rich and famous that are buried in this national historic landmark (1976). There are forty
Civil War generals of the Union Army buried here. Major General
fighting Joe Hooker being the highest ranked. There are seven Medal of
Honor recipients and two baseball Hall-of-Famers, former Yankees Waite Hoyt and
Miller Huggins. Check your history books on the following: U.S. Supreme Court
chief justice Salmon P. Chase, soap makers Procter & Gamble, department
store founders McAlpin, Pogue, Shillito and grocer Bernard Henry Kroger. Brewers
Schoeling, Moerlein. Namesake of Fountain Square Tyler Davidson. Artist Henry
Farny, architect Samuel Hannaford. Politicians Theodore Berry, George
"Boss" Cox, and a President's father and son Alphonso and Charlie
Taft.
The Gothic administration building and matching gatehouse were
completed in 1867 and replaced the original frame structures that marked the
entrance to Spring Grove.
The building seen in the first card below is the Mortuary Chapel. Built in 1879-1880, it is constructed of limestone and sandstone with an occasional gargoyle to break up the relatively plain exterior.
The cemetery's first landscape gardener, Adolph Strauch, converted the swampy lowlands at the front of the cemetery into several scenic lakes.
Mohlenhoff Monument Railway Arch Memorial Mausoleum
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OTHER CEMETERIES
The German Protestant Cemetery on Victory Parkway kept its name despite the anti-German feelings rampant during WWI, but in September 1941 the name was changed to The Walnut Hills Cemetery. The stone chapel seen in the 4th card dates from the 1880s.
Mt. Washington
St. Joseph
Price Hill
The Mount Washington Cemetery was established in 1855 by Lodge #24 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows on Sutton Avenue.
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Glendale
Cemetery
Milford Cemetery
Glen Haven
Linwood Baptist
Cemetery
Harrison, Ohio
Monument to 1st Cincinnati settlers
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Wesleyan Cemetery
Greendale Cemetery
Northside
Lawrenceburg, Indiana
the oldest continuously operated cemetery in Hamilton County is the 25 acre Wesleyan Cemetery in Cumminsville, having been chartered in 1843
Crematory
Fairmount Monument Co.
The Crematory, located at 525 Martin Luther King Drive, was organized in October of 1884 as the Cincinnati Cremation Company. It is the oldest operating crematory in the United States.
Not a postcard
Early image of crematory
Miami, Ohio Cemetery
Miami, Ohio is now known as Miamitown, Ohio.
