PARK AND CEMETERY 
85 
Tlie Improvement of OaK Hill Cemetery’, Eebanon, Ind. 
This periodical is always especially pleased to Lebanon has a population of 8,000 and the ceme- 
note progress in the cemeteries of smaller cities for tery, which originally contained hut fourteen now 
comprises sixty-four 
acres with a possibility of 
further enlargement by 
the addition of a con- 
siderable piece of land 
lying between Wash- 
ington street and the 
present boundary. It 
VIEW IN OAK HILL CEMETERY BEFORE IMPROVEMENT. 
numerous reasons, but chiefly because there are 
many more of them than of the very large ones, and 
that they are, as a whole. 
w'as laid out by Messrs. 
Earnsbaw & Punshon, 
whose plan includes the 
old ground, wdiich is di- 
vided into formal, rec- 
tangular sections wdth a 
central circle : this part 
has, however, been 
greatly improved and 
modified liy the addi- 
tion of a fine plot at the Washington street en- 
trance which has received park treatment. The new 
in greater need of an in- 
fusion of correct ideas in 
manner and in manage- 
ment. It is, therefore, a 
real satisfaction to find 
examples of improvement 
in these directions, and 
also to remark evidences 
of increased interest in 
the home burial grounds 
among citizens of taste 
and influence. All 
of these points ; apply 
to Oak Hill, the cem- 
etery at Lebanonj Indi- 
ana. 
AFTER IMPROVEMENT. SHOWING SUPERINTENDENT'S .RESIDENCE ON SITE OF 
CORNFIELD IN ABOVE PICTURE. 
