Cemeteries

SPRING  GROVE  CEMETERY

   Located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue this is not only the largest "rural" cemetery in the country (733 acres), it is also a bird sanctuary, arboretum, and park (with dozens of centuries-old trees, 21 of which are the largest of their species in Ohio).  There are 44 miles of paved roads, 300 acres of the cemetery are still undeveloped. There are 15 lakes and has 225,000 people intured there. It was consecrated in 1845 largely due to Dr. Daniel Drake who saw the need for a burial ground outside of the fast growing city after his wife died and was interred at Washington Cemetery. He saw firsthand the deplorable conditions of this and other cemeteries within the city.
   I will try and list just some of the incredible number of the rich and famous that are buried in this national historic landmark (1976). There are forty Civil War generals of the Union Army buried here. Major General fighting Joe Hooker being the highest ranked. There is also one Civil War general , Philip Luckett, who died in Cincinnati in 1869. The parents of Ulysses S. Grant are buried here. There are seven Medal of Honor recipients and two baseball Hall-of-Famers, former Yankees Waite Hoyt and Miller Huggins. Check your history books on the following: U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Salmon P. Chase, soap makers Procter & Gamble, department store founders McAlpin, Pogue, Shillito and grocer Bernard Henry Kroger. Brewers Schoeling, Moerlein. Namesake of Fountain Square Tyler Davidson. Artist Henry Farny, architect Samuel Hannaford. Politicians Theodore Berry, George "Boss" Cox, and a President's father and son Alphonso and Charlie Taft.
   The Gothic administration building and matching gatehouse were completed in 1867 and replaced the original frame structures that marked the entrance to Spring Grove.

   The building seen in the first card below is the Mortuary Chapel. Built in 1879-1880, it is constructed of limestone and sandstone with an occasional gargoyle to break up the relatively plain exterior.

   The cemetery's first landscape gardener, Adolph Strauch, converted the swampy lowlands at the front of the cemetery into several scenic lakes.

                               
Mohlenhoff  Monument                                        Railway Arch                 
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 Fleischmann mausoleum             Memorial Mausoleum                    The new Garden Mausoleum        

OAK  HILL  CEMETERY

   Oak Hill Cemetery was started in 1910 in Glendale at 11200 Princeton Pike. 50 of the 160 acres have been developed including a 9 hole golf course (Tri-County Golf Ranch). In 1989 Spring Grove Cemetery became the Management Service Provider for Oak Hill.

OTHER  CEMETERIES

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German Protestant  Cemetery /Walnut Hills Cemetery

   The German Protestant Cemetery on Victory Parkway kept its name despite the anti-German feelings rampant during WWI, but in September 1941 the name was changed to The Walnut Hills Cemetery. The stone chapel seen in the 4th card dates from the 1880s. 

                               
  Mt. Washington                                St. Joseph                                  Cedar Grove      
                                                     Price Hill                                         Bevis

   The Mount Washington Cemetery was established in 1855 by Lodge #24 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows on Sutton Avenue.

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                    Glendale Cemetery                                             Milford Cemetery

                                   
Glen Haven                                                                   Linwood Baptist Cemetery        
Harrison, Ohio                                                         Monument to 1st Cincinnati settlers  

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 Wesleyan Cemetery    
Northside    

   the oldest continuously operated cemetery in Hamilton County is the 25 acre Wesleyan Cemetery in Cumminsville, having been chartered in 1843

       
Chapel                          Frozen Fountain

   The Vine Street Hill Cemetery is located at 3701 Vine Street (just north of the Zoo). The cemetery was started by members of the German Evangelical Reform Churches of St. Peter and St. Paul in 1849. The cemetery was originally known as the German Evangelical Protestant Cemetery on Carthage Road (AKA Carthage Road Cemetery). The name of Carthage for this road started just north of Glenmary Ave. but was changed to Vine Street after the suburb of Clifton was annexed to Cincinnati in 1896. It became known as the Vine Street Hill Cemetery in 1941. The chapel was built in 1850 and rededicated in 1971. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. August "Garry" Herrmann owner of the Reds, Cincinnati politician, and chairman of the National Commission for the National League is one of those buried here.

Miami, Ohio Cemetery

   Miami, Ohio is now known as Miamitown, Ohio.

       
Fairmount Monument Co.           Mills Monument Co.    
                                                     707 Whittier St.

CINCINNATI  CREMATORY

   The Crematory, located at 525 Martin Luther King Drive, was organized in October of 1884 as the Cincinnati Cremation Company. Three years later, in 1887, the present location high on the hills in Clifton overlooking the Mill Creek valley was first constructed. It is the oldest operating crematory in the United States. The last 3 views below were taken in 1948.

These are not postcards
                               
Early image of crematory                        Entrance                  Road to Crematory                          Crematory