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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
PLAN OF 
EDGEWOOD CEMETERY 
NASHUA, N.H 
Edgewood Cemetery, Nashua, N. H. 
The accompanying plan of Edgewood Cemetery 
is, as will be seen, the embodiment of two separate 
plans, one the old rectangular system, another a 
modern natural system of treatment adapting itself 
more nearly to the contour of the ground. 
As the old portion, that represented by the rect- 
angular system, is nearly if not fully occupied no 
radical changes could be made and it remained for 
the landscape architect to combine the two systems 
so as to make a harmonious whole. New avenues 
had to be continuations of old ones and no abrupt 
termination of the first plan could be made at the 
beginning of the second. 
It will be seen by a glance at the plan that one 
avenue, that which skirts the border of the ceme- 
tery, has been made most prominent with all others 
subordinate to it. It will also be seen that all the 
new avenues radiate, or have a tendency to radiate, 
from the center of the cemetery where the present 
chapel is located. This is designed with a view to 
the convenience of funerals having services in the 
chapel. The new avenues are uniformly sixteen 
feet in width and of easy grade following the 
natural trend of the ground. 
The walks are so designed that every lot can be 
conveniently approached. They are designed five 
feet in width and divide the blocks into desirable 
areas. The blocks, spaces bounded by avenues, 
are subdivided by walks and these sections into lots. 
The blocks are lettered alphabetically, A being in 
the old portion, Z the portion outside the border 
avenue. 
The lots are numbered, one ( i ) in most cases 
being the lot in the corner of the block nearest the 
center of the cemetery. The numbers read around 
the block from left to right. Hence knowing the 
number of the lot and letter of the block it is an 
easy matter to find a particular lot. 
The blocks contain from twelve to two hundred 
odd lots. The lots vary in size from one large 
enough for six graves to one of twelve graves. 
