Монро -стрит кладбище
| Монро -стрит кладбище | |
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| Подробности | |
| Учредил | Январь 1836 года |
| Расположение | |
| Страна | Соединенные Штаты |
| Координаты | ° 28′42 ″ . . Ст |
| Тип | Публичный |
| Принадлежащий | Город Кливленд |
| Размер | 13,63 акра (55 200 М 2 ) |
| Количество могил | 31,400 (2022) |
| Website | Monroe Street Cemetery |
| Find a Grave | Monroe Street Cemetery |
Кладбище на улице Монро - это историческое кладбище , расположенное по адресу 3207 Монро -авеню в Кливленде , штат Огайо . Он был обозначен исторической достопримечательностью Комиссии по достопримечательностям города Кливленд в 1973 году. [ 1 ]
История
[ редактировать ]Сэмюэл П. Лорд был одним из 57 инвесторов в наземную компанию Коннектикута , [ 2 ] Земля спекуляции, сформированный в 1795 году, чтобы взять под контроль, обследовать и поощрять урегулирование в Западном заповеднике Коннектикута . [ 3 ] Инвестиции лорда оказали его на часть заповедника, и ему было выделено землю вдоль Западного берега реки Куяхога . [ 4 ] Его сын, Ричард Лорд, эмигрировал в этот район в 1818 году. Со своим зятем Джозией Барбер Ричард Лорд основал Бруклинский город 1 июня 1818 года на части земли Сэмюэля Лорда. [ 5 ]
Похороны на месте кладбища начались около 1818 года. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] В январе 1836 года лорд и парикмахер продали 6 акров (24 000 м. 2 ) земли в поселок за 160 долларов (около 4400 долларов США в 2023 году) для использования в качестве кладбища. [ 8 ] Ohio City was incorporated from part of Brooklyn Township on March 3, 1836, and the cemetery became part of the new city. The burying ground was called Ohio City Cemetery. Ohio City professionalized the cemetery: The grounds were divided into plots, rules for administration and burials were enacted, a sexton was appointed, and a hearse purchased.[1] Because title to the land was vested in the township, a dispute arose over who controlled the cemetery. This was resolved in 1841 when Ohio City adopted legislation formally taking title to the burial ground.[8]
Ohio City was annexed by the city of Cleveland on June 5, 1854. Title to the cemetery now transferred to the city of Cleveland, which renamed it the West Side Cemetery.[8] The city of Cleveland made several improvements to the cemetery. It was fenced to prevent local farm animals from roaming the premises, paved walks added, and the plantings improved.[1] By 1879, the cemetery had expanded to 32.5 acres (132,000 m2).[9]
Monroe Street Cemetery was Cleveland's only graveyard on the west side[1] until West Park Cemetery opened in 1900, after which the grounds became more commonly known as the Monroe Street Cemetery.
Monroe Street Cemetery was Cleveland's second-busiest cemetery in the first half of the 20th century.[8] As the cemetery filled and other, modern cemeteries became available, burials fell off and the cemetery fell into some disrepair.
The gatehouse and arch at the entrance to the cemetery is a Gothic Revival structure designed by noted local architect Joseph Ireland.[6] It was constructed in 1876[7] at a cost of $4,300[9] (about ($123,000 in 2023 dollars), and was identical to the gatehouse and arch constructed at Cleveland's Erie Street Cemetery.[6] The gatehouse partially collapsed in 2010. As it was the only way into the cemetery, the cemetery closed to the public.[7]
The city initially lacked the funds to save the gatehouse structure. Cemetery advocate Ken Silliman discovered the cemetery had a long-untapped endowment fund, and the city used these funds to rebuild the gatehouse in 2016.[6]
About the cemetery
[edit]The cemetery as of 2022 is 13.63 acres (55,200 m2) in size,[1] making it one of the 10 largest cemeteries in Northeast Ohio.[7] At one time, the cemetery had a receiving vault and office, both made of stone,[9] but these no longer exist. As of 2010, the cemetery was closed to new burials except for those who had already purchased and had room in plots.[7]
Sources vary as to the number of burials. The Plain Dealer newspaper believed there to be 31,000 in 2010[7] and 32,000 in 2016,[6] while author Alan Fodor estimated more than 31,400 in 2022.[1]
There are more than 500 veterans of the United States armed forces buried there.[1][6] Two American Revolutionary War veterans are buried there, as are about 400 individuals who fought in the American Civil War.[7]
The cemetery contains a large number of impressive Victorian headstones, monuments, and memorials.[9] Richard Lord's mausoleum appears relatively small, but has a substantial below-ground crypt.[6] The most expensive mausoleum is that of H.L. Whitman.[9]
Notable burials
[edit]- Josiah Barber (1771—1842), mayor of Ohio City[10][a]
- John Beverlin (1813—1891), mayor of Ohio City[1]
- William B. Castle (1814—1872), last mayor of Ohio city and the first mayor of Cleveland after the annexation of Ohio City[6][b]
- Alfred Greenbrier (1808—1888), mixed-race (African and European) farmer, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad "station master"[1]
- David Griffith (1792—1877), mayor of Ohio City[1]
- John Michael Kick (1840—1875), first Cleveland police office killed in the line of duty[1][13]
- Richard Lord (1780—1857), mayor of Ohio City[6]
- Irvine U. Masters (1823—1865), ship-builder and mayor of Cleveland[1]
- Needham Standart (1797—1874), mayor of Ohio City[1]
- James A. Thome (1813—1873), pastor and abolitionist[1]
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ He was disinterred in 1882 by his son, Josiah Barber Jr., and moved to Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland. The younger Barber had co-founded Riverside.[10]
- ^ He was disinterred at some later date,[11] and re-interred at Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery beneath a funerary monument featuring St. John the Evangelist.[12]
- Citations
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Fodor, Alan (2022). "Monroe Street Cemetery". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
- ^ Upton, Harriet Taylor (1910). History of the Western Reserve. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 10–11. OCLC 318373104.
- ^ Hurt, R. Douglas (1996). The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. pp. 164–166. ISBN 9780253332103.
- ^ Hatch, Stella T. (1896). "Pioneer Woman of Cleveland—West Side. Cuyahoga County. 1807-1850". In Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer (ed.). Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve. Volume 1. Cleveland: Woman's Dept. of the Cleveland Centennial Commission. p. 197. OCLC 9153897.
- ^ Kennedy, James Harrison (1896). A History of the City of Cleveland: Its Settlement, Rise, and Progress, 1796-1896. Cleveland: Imperial Press. p. 143. ISBN 9783849675721. OCLC 728657.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Washington, Roxanne (August 3, 2016). "Monroe Street Cemetery in Ohio City steeped in history, architecture". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Feran, Tom (May 11, 2010). "Ohio City's historic Monroe Street cemetery closes after gatehouse collapse". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Monroe Street Cemetery". Encyclopedia of Cleveland. 2022. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Johnson 1879, p. 305.
- ^ Jump up to: a b «Чтобы мы не забыли» (PDF) . Традиция . Осень 2003 г. с. 5 Получено 11 июля 2022 года .
- ^ «Первый и последний мэр» . Монро -стрит Фонд кладбища . 1999 . Получено 1 января 2020 года .
- ^ Мортон, Мариан (2004). КЛЕЙВЕЛЬНДА Чарльстон, Южная Каролина: Arcadia Publishing. п. 97. ISBN 9780738532301 .
- ^ «Похороны патрульного удара». Простой дилер . 18 мая 1875 г. с. 4
Библиография
[ редактировать ]- Джонсон, Крисфилд (1879). История округа Куйахога, штат Огайо: с портретами и биографическими набросками его выдающихся людей и пионеров . Филадельфия: DW Ensign.