Woodward Hill Cemetery

Laid out in 1850 on a hilly site above the Conestoga River south of Lancaster, Woodward Hill Cemetery was founded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity as one of the city's new burial grounds on the outskirts. Its thirty-two acres hold several thousand grave markers, dating from the late eighteenth century onward, that show nearly every major style of funerary art of their era. The gently curving drives and paths of the original 1850 section follow the land's undulating topography, while later additions were platted in a grid. The grounds also include a Gothic Revival chapel dating from 1851, a Victorian caretaker's house and several mausoleums, most built around the turn of the twentieth century. The cemetery is valued for its mid-nineteenth-century landscape design and its funerary art, and for the graves of figures such as President James Buchanan, Revolutionary War patriot Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg and painter Jacob Eichholtz.