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Oak Grove Cemetery (Morgantown, West Virginia) , Salisbury, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP
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Oak Grove Cemetery may refer to: * Oak Grove Cemetery (Conway, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Conway, Arkansas * Oak Grove Cemetery (Des Arc, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Prairie County, Arkansas * Oak Grove Cemetery (Jerseyville, Illinois) * Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP * Oak Grove Cemetery (Falmouth, Massachusetts) * Oak Grove Cemetery (Gloucester, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP * Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia) * Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP See also * Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery The Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at the corner of Liberty Street and North Church Street in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina. The cemetery has served as a burial ground for African Americans since it was deeded t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Conway, Arkansas)
Oak Grove Cemetery is the oldest cemetery of the city of Conway, Arkansas. It was established in 1880, five years after the town was incorporated and nine after its first settlement. The cemetery is in active use, with more than 3,000 burials. Among the interred are many of the city's earliest and most prominent citizens. The historic portion of the cemetery, roughly at its center, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Faulkner County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Faulkner County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Faulkner County, A ... References External links * {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1881 Buildings and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Des Arc, Arkansas)
Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery on 7th Street in Des Arc, Arkansas. Established in the 1850s, it is the city's oldest cemetery, occupying about now hemmed in by development. It has 182 documented historic burials, and is one of its few surviving pre-Civil War elements. Most of its interments took place before 1930, and there have been none since 1970. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Prairie County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Prairie County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Prairie County, Arkansas, United ... References External links * {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Prairie County, Arkansas National Regis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Jerseyville, Illinois)
Oak Grove Cemetery, established on January 18, 1856 retrieved September 15, 2008 is a cemetery located in , in the northeastern portion of the city. Originally, were purchased for the cemetery's use. Today, the cemetery covers forty-seven acres. Notable burials * – former player * |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, Massachusetts)
Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 765 Prospect Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was established in 1855 and greatly improved upon in the years that followed. It features Gothic Revival elements, including an elaborate entrance arch constructed of locally quarried Fall River granite. The cemetery originally contained 47 acres, but has since been expanded to over 120 acres. The cemetery is the city's most significant, built in the planned rural-garden style of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed and laid out by local architect Josiah Brown, who is also known for his designs of early mills including the Union, Border City, and others. Oak Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of many of the city's elite, including prominent mill owners and merchants. It also contains the city's Civil War Monument, donated by Richard Borden. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is still owned an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Falmouth, Massachusetts)
The Oak Grove Cemetery is an historic cemetery on Jones Road in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Overview The private cemetery was established in 1849 with the initial purchase of of land fronting on Palmer Road. This original section of the cemetery was laid out in the then-popular rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. The cemetery was enlarged in 1886, 1939, and 1952, with the 1939 purchase including the section facing Jones Road that now serves as its main entrance. Its Colonial Revival chapel was built in 1935 with funding by a bequest of Elizabeth G. Parke. The cemetery is the burying ground for many of Falmouth's most important citizens, including most of its veterans (including those from the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 which were relocated from family cemeteries), and ship captains who were the town's leading citizens in the 19th century. One of its most famous burials is that of Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America The Beautiful". The cemetery was lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
The Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, founded in 1854, which is bounded by Derby, Washington, and Grove Sts., and Maplewood Avenue in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. The cemetery was founded by a group of local businessmen who sought to establish a cemetery in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style. They hired landscape architects Robert Morris Copeland and Horace William Shaler Cleveland to lay out a series of winding lanes. The Bradford Chapel was built through a bequest by George R. Bradford, another local businessman, and built in 1903–04. The cemetery is still privately owned, and has grown over time to occupy . It is the burial place of the operatic soprano Emma Abbott. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester, Massachusetts *National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts This list is of that portion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia)
The Oak Grove Cemetery, originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campuses of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020. Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia, and Margaret Junkin Preston, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy". Name The cemetery was first known as the Presbyterian Cemetery. After the Lexington Presbyterian Church conveyed the cemetery to the city in 1949, the cemetery was renamed later that year for the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who was interred there after his death on May 10, 1863. The Lexington City Council unanimously voted to rename the cemetery in 2020 following the George Floyd protests, and the renaming wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts)
The Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Parker Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It consists of two parcels, separated by Parker Street, northwest of the city's central business district. The older portion of the cemetery, that south of Parker Street, was established in 1843, while the northern section was acquired and developed between 1870 and 1896. Most of the cemetery is laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style of winding lanes, although the northernmost section has a more open layout, made partly due to complaints about the cluttered nature of the rural cemetery style. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Notable burials * William P. Brownell (1839–1915) Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient * Richard Albert Canfield (1855–1914) businessman and gambler * SGT William Harvey Carney (1840–1908) Civil War Medal of Honor recipient * John Duffey (1836–1923) Civil War Medal of Honor * Thomas D. Eliot (1808â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |