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Forest Hill Cemetery (other)
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Forest Hill Cemetery or variation may also refer to: United States *Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri * Forest Hill Cemetery (Greencastle, Indiana) * Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan) * Forest Hill Cemetery (Utica, New York) *Forest Hill Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee) *Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin) * Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts *Forest Hills Memorial Park, Palm City, Florida See also * Forest Hills (other) * Forest Hill (other) Forest Hill or Forrest Hill may refer to: Places Australia * Forest Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Wagga Wagga * Forrest Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Albury * Forest Hill, Queensland * Forest Hill, Victoria ** Forest Hill Chase Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery
Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery is a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. History The Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery was established in 1888. George Kessler served as the landscape architect when the cemetery was established. The cemetery is approximately . It is located at 69th Street and Troost Avenue. Notable burials * Edward Robert Atwill (1840–1911), bishop of Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri * Charles A. Baird (1870–1944), athletic director at University of Michigan * John L. Barkley (1895–1966), U.S. Medal of Honor recipient * Harold Roe Bartle (1901–1974), businessman, philanthropist, executive, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, namesake of Kansas City Chiefs * Albert I. Beach (1883–1939), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri * Daniel Morgan Boone (1769–1839), pioneer, explorer and frontiersman * Louis C. Boyle (1866–1925), Kansas Attorney General and lawyer * Walter Halben Butler (1852–1931), U.S. Representative from Iowa, newspaperman and lawyer * Arthur Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Cemetery (Greencastle, Indiana)
Forest Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana. It was established in 1865, and is a 133-acre city cemetery for Greencastle, Indiana. Notable features include the Forest Hill Abbey (1931), four family crypts (c. 1880), the Soldier's Monument (1870), DAR Monument (1915), and the cemetery layout and soldier's section. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Notable interments * Thomas Bowman, Methodist Episcopal bishop * Albertus Theodore Briggs (1862–1937), Methodist Episcopal minister * Pearl Bryan (–1896), murder victim * Ed Eiteljorge (1871–1942), American baseball player * Courtland C. Gillen (1880–1954), U.S. Representative from Indiana, judge and lawyer * John Hanna (1827–1882), U.S. Representative and U.S. Attorney from Indiana, mayor of Greencastle * Courtland C. Matson (1841–1915), U.S. Representative from Indiana * Fini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery at 415 Observatory Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was designed by James Lewis Glenn and opened in 1857. History Prior to its use a cemetery, the site was the location of the nation's first fraternity building, a hunting lodge, built by the Chi Psi fraternity in 1849. Civil engineer James Lewis Glenn designed the cemetery in the rural or garden style popular in the second half of the 19th century. The cemetery's main gate was designed by James Morwick in the Gothic Revival style. Gordon W. Lloyd, a leading architect based in Detroit, Michigan, designed the cemetery's gatehouse and sexton's residence, also in the Gothic Revival style. In 1859 Dr. Benajah Ticknor was the first person to be buried in Forest Hill. Ticknor had been a surgeon in the U.S. Navy and the owner of property now known as Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor. Notable persons interred at Forest Hill * John Allen, American pioneer and co-founder of Ann Arbor *James Burr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Cemetery (Utica, New York)
Forest Hill Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Utica, New York founded in 1850. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Forest Hills Cemetery is located at 2201 Oneida Street, in Utica, New York. It is a non-sectarian cemetery, which means anyone of any religion can be buried there. Over the years some nationally and locally recognized people have been buried here. Because of its many monuments, grave sites of famous people, along with other historical structures, the cemetery is sometimes referred to as "Utica's outdoor museum". Founding Forest Hill Cemetery was founded in 1848 by a group of local residents to satisfy the growing needs of Utica, which was increasing in size, as the city's existing cemetery on Water Street had become over-crowded. A meeting of citizens was held at the office of Thomas R. Walker with Judge William J. Bacon presiding. Here they determined to form an association for the purpose of establishing a cemetery which sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. It consists of three separate cemeteries: Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Forest Hill Cemetery East and Forest Hill Cemetery South. History Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown was established in 1888 and chartered in 1892. As of 1906, the cemetery comprised 180 acres and there were 1,300 interments. A second location, Forest Hill Cemetery East, was established in 1961. A third location, Forest Hill Cemetery South, was established in 1962. The cemeteries are owned by Pennsylvania based StoneMor. In 2021, WREG-TV investigated fines placed in 2020 and 2021 by the state against the cemeteries. The cemeteries received complaints and ten fines for poor maintenance, management and rodent infestation. The rodent infestation problem took place at the body preparation building from June 2020 to March 2021 at the Forest Hill Cemetery East location. There has been notable damage to memorials, including the memorials of John R. Brinkley and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
Forest Hill Cemetery is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and was one of the first U.S. National Cemeteries established in Wisconsin. Founding of cemetery After the first permanent European-American settlers arrived in Madison in the 1830s, the first non-native burials occurred on the current University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, near Bascom Hill. In the following years other areas within the area were established as informal burying grounds and the first official village cemetery was established in 1847 near what is now Orton Park. In the mid-1850s, a committee was formed to search for another appropriate site in the area to form an official Madison cemetery. The committee members chose the current site, then on the far west side of the city and subsequently bought the original of land for $10,000 from John and Mary Wright. The Wrights had obtained the land from land speculator James Duane Doty, who had obtained it from Alanson Sweet, a territorial council member from Milw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden located in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery of the town of Roxbury, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston. Overview Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the southern part of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It is roughly bounded on the southwest by Walk Hill Street, the southeast, by the American Legion Highway, and the northeast by the Arborway and Morton Street, where its entrance is located. To the northwest, it is separated from Hyde Park Avenue by a small residential area. It abuts Franklin Park, which lies to the northeast, and is a short distance from the Arnold Arboretum to the northwest, and forms a greenspace that augments the city's Emerald Necklace of parkland. The cemetery has a number of notable monuments, including some by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hills Memorial Park
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds ''in situ''. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban use." Using this definition, '' Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020'' (FRA 2020) found that forests covered , or approximately 31 percent of the world's land area in 2020. Forests are the predominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, and are found around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (Brazil, Canada, China, Russia, and the United States). The largest share of forests (45 percent) are in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hills (other)
Forest Hills or Forrest Hills may refer to: Places United States * Forest Hills (Tampa), Florida * Forest Hills, Illinois, a neighborhood in Western Springs * Forest Hills, Kentucky * Forest Hills, Boston, Massachusetts ** Forest Hills Cemetery * Forest Hills, Michigan * Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City * Forest Hills, North Carolina * Forest Hills, Pennsylvania * Forest Hills, Tennessee * Forrest Hills, Tennessee * Forest Hills, Dallas, Texas * Forest Hills, Virginia * Forest Hills, Kanawha County, West Virginia * Forest Hills (Washington, D.C.) Elsewhere * Forest Hills, Nova Scotia, Canada * Forest Hills, Kloof, South Africa Schools * Forest Hills High School (other) * Forest Hills Public Schools, Kent County, Michigan * Forest Hills Local School District, a public school district in Hamilton County, Ohio * Forest Hills School District, a public school district in Cambria County, Pennsylvania See also * Forest Hills Foods, a local supermarket in Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
