This is more than your
ordinary cemetery. It is considered by many to be a walk through history, a vast
outdoor art museum or a horticultural paradise. In any case, it is one of the
finest garden cemeteries in the country as well as one of the most historic. It
has 285 acres of land and is located in University Circle. It is modeled after
the great garden cemeteries of Victorian England and France. It also has a
picturesque dam measuring 500 feet wide and 60 feet above ground. And among its
numerous points of interest and appeal, visitors will be awed by the memorials
of it’s more famous permanent residents such as:
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President Garfield’s Tomb
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Wade Memorial Chapel, one of the few buildings left in the world that the
interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio. Both the
Garfield Monument and Wade Chapel are open daily, April 1 - Nov. 19th, 9:00
a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
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John D. Rockefeller’s
Monument (For younger folks, imagine someone wealthier than Bill Gates and
Microsoft)
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Eliot Ness – the lawman
that brought infamous mobster Al Capone to justice
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James Salisbury – creator
of the Salisbury Steak
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Ray Chapman – The only
player in major league baseball history to be killed during a game by a
pitched ball (Cleveland Indian)
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Charles Pinkney – a minor
league baseball player killed by a pitched ball
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Carl Stokes – the first
black mayor of a major city (Cleveland)
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Garrett Morgan – Inventor
of the gas mask and first tri-color traffic light
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Coburn Haskell – inventor
of the modern golf ball
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Collinwood School Fire
Memorial – a memorial to the 172 children and two teachers who died in the
biggest school accident in U.S. history (occurring on Ash Wednesday in 1908
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And many other nationally
and internationally known business and industrial tycoons, philanthropists,
political powers, people of the arts and entertainment world as well as
ordinary people of a wide-variety of race, ethnic and financial backgrounds.
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