Elmwood Cemetery is a 412 acre (167 hectare) cemetery established in the 1880s( as Elm Leaf Cemetery) on the western side of Birmingham, Alabama by a group of Fraternal organizations. It was renamed in 1906 and gradually eclipsed Oak Hill Cemetery as the most prominant burial place in the city. An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... // Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam Motto: Official website: http://www. ... A fraternal organisation is an organisation that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Notable burials
Truman H. Aldrich (1848-1955) - U. S. Representative 1896-1897
William Wirt Allen (1835-1894) - Confederate Major General
Sydney J. Bowie (1865-1928) - U. S. Representative 1901-1907
Bear Bryant (1913-1983) - University of Alabama football coach
B. B. Comer - (1848-1927) - Governor of Alabama 1907-1911, U. S. Senator 1920
The historic ElmwoodCemetery is located within easy reach of the Windsor-Detroit tunnel, a two mile hop from the man-made forest of downtown Detroit buildings but few Walkervillians have taken the short journey to its majestic gates.
ElmwoodCemetery is the oldest continuous non-religious cemetery in Detroit.
According to the Detroit News (January 15, 1899): "At the ElmwoodCemetery, a big canvas canopy had been stretched over the burial lot to protect the members of the family at the graveside; the internment was private.
ElmwoodCemetery is a property that possesses local historic significance as one of the oldest and largest public cemeteries in Charlotte and as a reflection of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s nineteenth-and-twentieth-century cultural heritage.1 The cemetery, a 72-acre plot of rolling green space in the heart of Charlotte, first opened in 1853.
ElmwoodCemetery also serves as a representation of the increasing racial, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity of a New South city throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while remaining a tangible reminder of the system of segregation that characterized the South until the middle of the twentieth century.
ElmwoodCemetery’s landscape design also tells the story of racial divisions within Charlotte-Mecklenburg, divisions that were strictly upheld throughout the South until the middle of the twentieth century.
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