Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery occupies slightly more than 43 acres of hills, ravines and mature trees on limestone bluffs roughly 100 feet above the Mississippi River in southwestern Quincy, Illinois. Quincy's founder, John Wood, laid it out in 1846 in the tradition of Mount Auburn, and it follows the rural cemetery model. Nineteen irregular blocks, platted between 1846 and 1928, follow the natural terrain, and the drives and landforms remain essentially as first laid out. The grounds contain a circa 1916 Sexton's House, a 1927 Classical Revival granite mausoleum, several family vaults, and many carved monuments. The Rogers vault of 1875-76, built of Vermont marble, and the 1867 Soldiers Monument by sculptor Cornelius G. Volk are among the best known. The cemetery became Quincy's principal burial ground and a favored place for Victorian-era visitors. It is listed as a district for its landscape design, its surviving topography, and its funerary architecture and sculpture from 1846 to 1951.