Ford Park Cemetery is a 34 acre (140,000 m) cemetery in central Plymouth, England, founded in 1848. Its' official name at the time of inception was The Pymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse (Ford Park) Cemetery, although it is seldom referred to by that title any longer.
It is estimated that approximately a quarter of a million people are buried within its grounds. Among the more famous graves is that of the Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker, the author of The Song of the Western Men.
FordParkCemetery was established in 1848 by the Plymouth Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery Company.
The architects who designed the Cemetery were a Gloucester partnership of J R Hamilton and James Medland, who were the winners of a competition organised by the directors of the Cemetery Company.
FordParkCemetery Trust, which is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status, took over the Cemetery in April 2000 and now manages it as a working cemetery for the people of Plymouth.
Model T Fords from Dearborn once rolled down these streets and, on rare occasions, the hospital dispatched its ambulance, but the only vehicle we passed in the sleepy village was a Volkswagen in a carport.
While Ford pondered the idea of a plantation in the Americas, the U.S. government as early as 1923 was surveying Venezuela, Brazil and Central America to evaluate their potential as rubber sources.
Ford in the Jungle.” Furthermore, the natives did not choose to square dance on the village green or to sing the quaint folk songs of Merrie England or to treasure Longfellow.”
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