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PARK AND CEyAETERY 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
Twenty-three acres of the new Catholic cemetery at Lima, 
O., are under improvement, and the cemetery will soon be open 
for burials. The landscape work is intended to be a special 
feature. 
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Colonel George Healy, who died last month at Rochester, 
Minn., and who was treasurer of Oakwood Cemetery Association 
of that city, has bequeathed some $6o oooto the cemetery, the in- 
terest of which is to be used in beautifying the grounds. 
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It has been decided by the city authorities that Greenlawn 
Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind., shall be turned over to the Park 
Commissioners, who will endeavor to make it an ornament rath- 
than a disgrace to the southwestern part of the city. 
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Oak Grove Cemetery, one of the oldest of Kansas City, Mo., 
and completely filled, has been sorely neglected by the authori- 
ties, and its condition has aroused considerable feeling This 
will undoubtedly result in some permanent method of main- 
tenance for that and other of the city cemeteries. 
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Scotland claims the credit of having the smallest burial 
ground in the world. It is situated in the town of Galashiels 
between Bridge street and High street. It measures only 22)4 
feet by 14^ feet, and is surrounded by a rickety wall about seven 
feet high. It has been closed as a burial ground for many 
years. 
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One would hardly expect to find a burial ground within the 
boundaries of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, yet there still exists 
the old Quaker cemetery, hidden away, yet of considerable area, 
and carefully kept. Quaker simplicity and severity prevail 
throughout. The grass is carefully cut and trees and small 
shrubs abound. The headstones are uniform in height but quite 
low, and there is no ostentatious display anywhere about this 
quiet sequestered spot. 
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Great improvements have been under way in Woodlawn 
Cemetery, Nashua. N H., since its management went into the 
hands of a board of Trustees. Intacta transformation has been 
rapidly effected, and modern ideas and business methods have 
taken the place of the slip-shod policy of years ago. In most o^ 
the town cemeteries the same careless methods of keeping records 
prevailed, so that it is difficult to ascertain particulars of inter- 
ments or other matters of former days. Now this will be chang- 
ed and cemetery business systematized. 
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The Laurel Hill Association, Stockbridge, Mass., is the 
oldest village improvement society in America. It held its 
43rd annual meeting on August 26. Its sustained energy has 
resulted in making Stockbridge well known all over the world 
as one of the most beautiful villages in the United States. One 
of its committees has charge of those parts of the cemetery where 
there are no resident friends to look after the graves. The as- 
sociation has also located a large number of revolutionary sold- 
iers’ graves a’ d has had them properly marked. 
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A new stone gateway is to be erected and other improve- 
ments carried out at New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City. An 
interesting feature in regard to this cemetery is the number of 
Society lodges and other corporations that own lots therein. For 
instance there are some twenty lodges of the Odd Fellows; three 
Masons; six churches, including three of New York City; two 
steamship companies;! the American Dramatic Association; the 
Police department; the Mayor and Common Council, and several 
other associated bodies, all holding a greater or less number of 
lots for burial purposes. 
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After an existence of nearly one hundred years, the old 
West Street Presbyterian Cemetery in Georgetown, D. C., is to 
be turned into a site for building lots. No interments have been 
made for ten years past. The trustees some time ago posted 
notices warning all persons having friends buried there to re- 
move the bodies before September i, since which date a force of 
men has been at work removing the remains to other cemeter- 
ies. Many well known men were buried here, but the place has 
been allowed to run down, and it became an unsightly grave 
yard. 
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Lakeside cemetery, at Hamburg-on-the-Lake, nine miles 
from the City Hall, Buffalo, was practically opened last month 
by the visit of a large number of people, guests of the cemetery 
management, to inspect the new grounds. The tract comprises 
250 acres, having a frontage of three quarters of a mile on the 
railroad, with Locksley Park and Lake Erie in the foregi'ound. 
An adjoining tract of 120 acres may in the future be added to 
the grounds. The land has great advantages for cemetery pur- 
poses. The railroad station, a handsome structure, and which 
will also be used for the present as a chapel, is already built; a 
receiving tomb will be finished this fall and the chapel proper 
will be constructed at an early date. It will be completed and 
managed on the lawn plan, and it will be made a beautiful 
burial park. 
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The U. S. National Military Cemetery at Knoxville, Tenn., 
comprises about ten acres of land, rectangular in form, enclosed 
by a rubble stone wall. The graves are arranged in concentric 
circles around a mound in the centre, where a flag pole stands, 
from which floats the flag presented by the ladies of Knoxville. 
Driveways intersect the cemetery from the four sides, with iron 
gateways on the east and west sides. A brick structure for a 
rostrum was erected in 1878, which is used by the G. A. R. an- 
nually on Decoration Day. A stone lodge serves as residence for 
the superintendent and office of the cemetery. Trees, shrub- 
bery and flowers help to make the place attractive. The total 
number of interments are 3208 of which 2161 are known and are 
recorded on the headstones. “United States soldier, unknown,” 
is the record on the headstone at 1047 graves. The remains 
were gathered from the sui rounding states, with great care, but 
with the above result. 
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The Board of Trustees of Pine Hill cemetery, Dover, N. H., 
has issued their first annual report for the year ending Dec., 31, 
1895. This board of trustees was appointed last year under an 
act of the legislature, and was designed to put the town cemetery 
affairs under intelligent management, and to empower said trus- 
tees to secure additional land and improve it. Pine Hill cemet- 
ery originated under a vote at a public town meeting held 
March, 29, 1731, which reads as follows; “Voted that there be 
one acre & an half of Land Granted for the use of the Town for 
ever, for a publick Burying place, To be Laid out by ye Select 
men near ye Meeting-house on pine Hill at Cochecha.” No 
authentic records can be found of the location of this original 
one and half acres, nor of the subsequent many additions, up to 
the incorporation of the town in 1855. Since that time the 
record is clearer, but yet far from complete. With the adoption 
of the trustee system a new era opens up for Pine Hill Cemet- 
yer. 
