Spring Grove Cemetery
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres) is a notable, nonprofit garden cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is open daily.
The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration 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 prepared the Articles of Incorporation. The cemetery was formally chartered on January 21, 1845, and the first burial took place on September 1, 1845. In 1855 Adolph Strauch, a renowned landscape architect, was hired to renovate the grounds. His sense and layout of the "garden cemetery", made of lakes, trees and shrubs, is what visitors today still see. In 1987, the association officially changed its name to "Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum" to better represent its remarkable collection of both native and exotic trees, as well as its State and National Champion Trees.
On March 29, 2007, the cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark [1]
Spring Grove encompasses 733 acres of which 400 acres are currently landscaped and maintained. Its grounds include 12 ponds, many fine tombstones and memorials, and various examples of Gothic Revival architecture. As of 2005, its National Champion trees were Cladrastis kentukea and Halesia diptera; its State Champion trees included Abies cilicica, Abies koreana, Cedrus libani, Chionanthus virginicus, Eucommia ulmoides, Halesia parvifolia, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Phellodendron amurense, Picea orientalis, Picea polita, Pinus flexilis, Pinus griffithi, Pinus monticola, Quercus cerris, Quercus nigra, Taxodium distichum, Ulmus serotina, and Zelkova serrata.
Notable graves
- Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States
- Henry Stanberry, 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 President William Howard Taft
- John McLean, Associate Justice of the United States
- William Procter and James Gamble, founders of Procter and 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, Civil War general
- Kenner Garrard, Civil War general
- Godfrey Weitzel, Civil War general
- Joseph Hooker, Civil War general and commander of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- Alexander Long, congressman
- Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist
- William Haines Lytle, 19th century Ohio, general, politician, poet
- George Hunt Pendleton, Congressman and a Senator from Ohio
- Skip Prosser, Wake Forest University men's basketball head coach at the time of his death, former assistant and head men's basketball coach at Xavier University.
- Miranda Phelps, freshman student at Northwest High School (Cincinnati, OH), popular in not only fashion but time of death, as well as popular amongst the entire 1,100 member student body of Northwest High School.
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