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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, 
New York. 
Beautiful Oakwood is a term 
appropriately applied to this 
attractive resting place of the 
dead, which originally beauti- 
ful under nature’s lavish hand, 
has retained this characteristic 
gutters are paved with cobble stones from three to 
seven feet wide. There are fifty seven sections laid 
out, of irregular size and shape, covering some eighty 
acres of its area; the largest lot contains 8050 feet, and 
there are several of 3000 to 6000 square feet of area, 
but probably the average may be set down at from 450 
to 500 feet. No entire section is devoted to single 
grvesa; the system adopted is to locate a block of them 
not many in a place, in the interior of 
large sections. There is no “potters field,” 
and this is a feature in accord with pres- 
ent ideas provided a true conception of 
“man’s duty to man” stimulates the man- 
agement. 
No monuments or boundary posts are 
permitted on single graves and the mark- 
ers are restricted to a height of 2 ft. 6 in. 
and a width of 2 ft. One body is only 
allowed in each grave and the price 
charged is ten dollars. 
The lawn plan, as it is called, of cem 
etery design and maintenance, is adopted 
in the new portion of this cemetery, so 
that in the old grounds we still find the 
depressed paths between lots. About the 
newer sections grass paths are the rule 
OAKWOOD CHAPEL. and no gravel, cement or scrimshaw is 
feature under the wise methods adopted and pur- used. Very liberal margins are left about the lots 
sued in its transition. It comprises some 170 acres for ornamental planting, and all odd points and 
of land, situated not far from the center of Syracuse, 
N. Y., and in- 
cludes hill and 
dale, of gentle 
declivity, no in- 
clines impractic- 
able, and half of 
its area natural 
woods, the white 
and black oak 
p re dominating. 
Its greatest ele- 
vation is 200 
feet. 
Oakwood 
cemetery was 
established in 
1859, and now 
comprises some 
170 acres, but 
has only one 
small lake used 
as a lily pond. 
It has eleven 
miles of gravel 
roads, and on 
the grades the 
fractions are reserved for decorative effects about 
VIEW IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHAPEL. 
