THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. 
It is proposed in forthcoming issues to 
give more or less frequently, plans of 
some of our cemeteries, showing their de- 
signs and lay-out, and with these maps 
such notes of their main fea- 
tures as may lead to a clear- 
er comprehension of their 
details which are most strik- 
ing and useful for study. 
The plan herewith is that 
of Cedar Hill Cemetery of 
Hartford, Conn., which was 
organized under a special 
charter by the state legisla- 
ture, in 1 864. 
In area it is 268 acres — - 
the original purchase being 
large in order to control land 
enough to secure a site in 
every way desirable. Of this 
area some 50 acres are im- 
proved and laid out in lots 
and sections, and 6 acres are 
in lakes and running water. 
The nature of the ground 
is gravelly hardpan, and the landscape 
is markedly undulating. Its greatest 
elevation is 25 5 feet above mean low 
water at Saybrook, Conn., on Long Is- 
land Sound, and the highest point of 
the cemetery is 102 feet above its en- 
trance. Its location is superb, com- 
manding a view of over 40 miles up 
the Connecticut river, and from 13 to 20 
miles east and south. A public road, 
it will be seen, bounds three sides of 
the cemetery. The general lay-out was 
made upon suggestions of the late Ad- 
olph Strauch, of Spring Grove, Cincin- 
nati, and the development by the late 
Jacob Wiedenmann. The roads 
throughout are generally constructed 
on the Telford system. 
The method of improvement is first 
to bring up a section to an established 
grade, and then to lay out the lots in 
reference to the section as a whole. The lots 
generally square — from twenty feet to fifty 
square — and owing to the irregularity of outline of 
the sections, straight lines and row's are avoided; 
moreover, lots do not touch each other, a reasona- 
ble amount of space being left between. For these 
reasons monuments seldom line with each other for 
any distance. 
Only about a quarter of an acre is laid out for 
are 
feet 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, 
Hartford, Coiiu. 
