Oakdale Cemetery (Washington, North Carolina)
Oakdale Cemetery may refer to: * Oakdale Memorial Gardens, formerly Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa *Oakdale Cemetery (Hendersonville, North Carolina) *Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina) Oakdale Cemetery is a cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina that dates from the 19th century. History Because existing cemeteries were becoming crowded, a group of citizens bought a 65-acre tract of land east of Burnt Mill Creek, east of the tow ...

Oakdale Memorial Gardens
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, formerly Oakdale Cemetery, is located in east-central Davenport, Iowa. It contains a section for the burial of pets called the Love of Animals Petland. In 2015, the cemetery was listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places, and as a local landmark on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties. (Click on "Historic Preservation Commission" and then click on "Davenport Register of Historic Properties and Local Landmarks.") It is also listed on the Network to Freedom, a National Park Service registry for sites associated with the Underground Railroad. History Oakdale was established as a non-profit cemetery by a group of Davenport businessmen as an alternative to the overcrowded Davenport City Cemetery and the for-profit Pine Hill Cemetery. It was incorporated as the Oakdale Cemetery Company May 14, 1856. The cemetery board hired Captain George F. de la Roche, who had finished the design of Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, ...
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Oakdale Cemetery (Hendersonville, North Carolina)
Oakdale Cemetery is a historic city cemetery and national historic district located at Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was established in 1885, and has approximately 5,400 burials. The property includes the original 1885 white section and 1885 African American section, along with a number of additions made into the 1950s. It includes a section for Agudas Israel Synagogue - Hendersonville's sole Jewish congregation. Historic contributing resources include the cemetery, a frame, octagonal pavilion dating from the turn of the 20th century; a 20th-century, rectangular brick mausoleum with a flat roof and terra cotta coping; a large Neoclassical concrete mausoleum, built in 1951; and a 1950s maintenance building. It includes the Italian marble angel statue which served as the inspiration for Thomas Wolfe's first novel, ''Look Homeward, Angel (1929)''. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Gallery File:Oakdale Cemetery Pavillion - ...
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