Spring Grove Cemetery
The Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum is a nonprofit Park Cemetery ( Engl. Cemetery ) in the US state of Ohio , which is a Arboretum and neo includes monuments. It is 297 acres and is located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue in Cincinnati , Ohio.
history
The establishment of the cemetery dates back to 1844 when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society created a cemetery association. The inspiration for this came from contemporary rural cemeteries such as Père Lachaise in Paris and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge , Massachusetts . On December 1, 1844, Salmon P. Chase and others drew up the Articles of Incorporation for the company. Thereafter, the cemetery was formally leased on January 21, 1845. The first burial took place on September 1, 1845. In 1854 Adolph Strauch , who later became a renowned landscape architect , was employed as director to redesign the site. From the arrangement of lakes, trees and bushes, his sense of spatial structure can still be recognized today. His changes were so fundamental to the design of the cemetery that they attracted attention at the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 and were therefore the only cemetery to be invited to participate. Furthermore, this cemetery grew into an important design example in Hermann Jäger 's textbook on garden art published in 1877 .
Spring Grove Cemetery has been listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places since May 1976 . In 1987 the association officially changed its name to "Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum" in order to better represent the remarkable collection of indigenous and exotic trees as well as state and nationally chosen trees contained in the complex. On March 29, 2007, the cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark .
investment
Spring Grove covers 297 acres of which approximately 162 acres are currently horticultural. The grounds include 12 ponds, many beautiful tombstones and monuments, and various examples of Neo-Gothic .
In the USA, both at the national level ("national champion trees") and at the state level ("state champion trees"), the stately specimens for each tree species are determined according to the three criteria of trunk circumference, crown diameter and height. In the arboretum there are two "national champions" from the genus of snowdrop trees ( Halesia ), one representative each of the species Halesia parviflora and two-winged snowdrop tree ( Halesia diptera ). In addition, there are just under 20 "state champion trees", which are the most stately specimens of their kind within the state of Ohio. These are (in addition to the two US-wide "champions") among the conifers representatives of the species Cilician fir ( Abies cilicica ), Korean fir ( Abies koreana ), Lebanon cedar ( Cedrus libani ), primeval sequoia ( Metasequoia glyptostroboides ), Caucasus Spruce ( Picea orientalis ), tiger-tail spruce ( Picea torano ), flexible pine ( Pinus flexilis ), western Weymouth pine ( Pinus monticola ), teardrop pine ( Pinus wallichiana ) and bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum ) are among the deciduous trees representatives of the species Herkuleskeule ( Aralia spinosa ), Virginischer snowflakes bush ( Chionanthus virginicus ), American Yellow wood ( Cladrastis kentukea ), Gutta Percha ( Eucommia ulmoides ), Zerreiche ( Quercus cerris ), water oak ( Quercus nigra ), Amur cork tree ( Phellodendron amurense ) , the elm species Ulmus serotina and the Japanese zelkova ( Zelkova serrata ).
The garden cemetery is open to visitors during the day.
Distinguished burials
- Salmon P. Chase , Chief Justice of the United States
- Henry Stanbery , Attorney General of the United States
- Levi Coffin , Quaker abolitionist
- Alphonso Taft , politician , father of William Howard Taft
- Louise Taft , second wife of Alphonso Taft and mother of the President of the United States William Howard Taft
- John McLean , Associate Justice of the United States
- William Procter and James Gamble , founders of Procter & Gamble
- Bernard Kroger , founder of Kroger supermarkets
- Charles L. Fleischmann , yeast manufacturer
- John Morgan Walden , Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Theodore Sommers Henderson , Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Jacob Ammen , Union General
- Connoisseur Garrard , Union General
- Godfrey Weitzel , Union General
- Joseph Hooker , Union General and Army of the Potomac Commander at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- Alexander Long , Congressman
- Samuel Fenton Cary , Congressman, Prohibitionist
- William Haines Lytle , general, politician, poet
- George Hunt Pendleton , Congressman and US Senator from Ohio
- Skip Prosser , basketball head coach at Wake Forest University until his death and former deputy head coach at Xavier University .
- Alexander McDowell McCook , Union General
- Miller Huggins , New York Yankees Hall of Fame baseball manager during the Babe Ruth epoch
- Dudley Sutphin , Cincinnati District Attorney , Judge and Legion of Honor member
- George K. Brady , US Army officer, certification officer for the Department of Alaska
- Arthur F. Devereux , Brevet Brigadier General of Salem , Massachusetts during the American Civil War
- Frances Wright , pioneering feminist , abolitionist and free thinker
- Nicholas Longworth , father of the American Grape Culture
- Isaac M. Jordan , one of seven co-founders of the Sigma Chi student movement
literature
- Barbara Leisner: Aestheticization and Representation. The new park cemeteries at the end of the 19th century. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal, Museum for Sepulchral Culture: Space for the Dead. Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-87815-174-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spring Grove Cemetery on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 6, 2020.
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Ohio. National Park Service , accessed February 6, 2020.
See also
Web links
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum
- Forty Civil War generals buried in Spring Grove Cemetery
- Spring Grove Entrance
Coordinates: 39 ° 9 '52.4 " N , 84 ° 31' 21.6" W.