Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery covers 26 acres on the northeast side of Hamilton, Ohio, and is laid out in the rural cemetery tradition of the mid-1800s. Hamilton citizens organized it in 1847-48 because the older burying grounds in town were being crowded by growth. Rolling hills, winding drives, a pond with a statue of a young woman, and mixed plantings of oaks, maples, willows and catalpa create a park-like setting. Trustees consulted landscape designer Adolph Strauch of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. Notable structures include a Richardsonian Romanesque public receiving vault of 1892, family vaults for the Howell and McGriff families, a caretaker's shed with upturned pagoda-like eaves, and a veterans section with a 1936 memorial. Victorian obelisks, ark-shaped markers, angels and urns fill the grounds. The cemetery was recognized for its social history, architecture and landscape design, with a period of significance of 1848 to 1936.