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Collection: Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection

Title: Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection

Object ID: MG0264

Date Range: 1851-1997

employed by, buried at, served on the cemetery board, or were otherwise associated with the cemetery. Creator: Woodward Hill Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) Conditions for Access: Folders 11-15 contain restricted materials. Conditions Governing Reproductions: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct

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Collection: Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection

Title: Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection

Description: The Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection contains records of the cemetery from 1851-1997, such as the charter and by-laws, board minutes, lot holder records, plans, programs, financial documents, and grant proposals. The records include the names of thousands of people who were employed by, buried at, served on the cemetery board, or were otherwise associated with the cemetery.

Admin/Biographical History: For more than 150 years, Woodward Hill Cemetery has been one of Lancaster’s most significant historic sites. As the final resting place of numerous prominent citizens including President James Buchanan, with a layout reflecting Victorian ideals of landscape design and containing fine examples of funerary monuments, Woodward Hill’s national significance was recognized in 2005 when the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Woodward Hill was the largest and most elaborate of the new rural cemeteries established in Lancaster during the mid-nineteenth century. Rural cemeteries were designed as vital open spaces or public parks for the community; they provided a place for recreation as well as veneration of the dead. As a final resting place for illustrious citizens, Woodward Hill is a “museum” of notable clergy, educators, civic leaders, and veterans. Today the cemetery occupies 32 acres and contains approximately 13,750 grave markers ranging in date from the late eighteenth century to the present day. They illustrate the 200-year evolution of funerary art, sculpture and associated symbolism. In addition to tombstones, there are numerous obelisks and mausoleums representing Victorian, neoclassical, and early modern architectural styles. Founded in 1852 by Trinity Lutheran Church, Woodward Hill Cemetery is one of Lancaster's significant historic sites. The cemetery was the largest and most elaborate of the new "rural" cemeteries established in the mid- nineteenth century. It was designed as vital open space, allowing for recreation as well as veneration of the dead. The final resting place of many notable clergy, veterans, education, civic and business leaders, Woodward Hill's best known grave site belongs to James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States http://www.woodwardhillcemetery.com/ 8/11/17

Date Range: 1851-1997

Year Range From: 1851

Year Range To: 1997

Date of Accumulation: 1851-1997

Creator: Woodward Hill Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 07

Subjects: Business records; Cemeteries; Death registers; Deeds; Lancaster (Pa.); Minutes (Records)

Search Terms: Burial records; Business records; Cemeteries; Deeds; Finding aids; Lancaster; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Woodward Hill Cemetery

Extent: 3 boxes, 34 folders,1 volume,3 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0264

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: MSAccess database in the Research Center.

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Woodward Hill Cemetery Collection (MG0264), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folders 11-15 contain restricted materials.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Other Numbers: MG-264

Classification: MG0264

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to PP on 11 August 2017.

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"Indications...of progress in taste and refinement" : the Lancaster and Woodward Hill Cemeteries

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Author: Schuyler, David.

Date of Publication: 1991.

, Frederic Shriver Klein, Lancaster County Since 1841, rev. ed. (Lancaster, Pa., 1955), pp. 9-11, passim. 4. Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania . . . (Phila- delphia, 1883), pp. 523-24; C. F. Schaeffer and F. A. Muhlenberg, Memorial Volume of the Evangelical Lutheran

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Responsibility: by David Schuyler.

Author: Schuyler, David.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: [66]-83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.93, no. 3

Subjects: Lancaster Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.); Woodward Hill Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.); Cemeteries; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 93, number 3 (1991), p. 66-83Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.93

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Kit of teaching resource leaflets

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Date of Publication: 1980-1997.

Call Number: 736.5 M354k

Place of Publication: Greenfield, Mass

Publisher: Association for Gravestone Studies,

Date of Publication: 1980-1997.

Physical Description: 18 leaflets : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series: AGS publications

Notes: Caption title.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: No. 1 Analyzing cemetery data / Rosalee Oakley -- No. 2 Cemeteries listed in the National Register of Historic Places / Sybil F. Crawford -- No. 3 Guide to forming a "Cemetery Friends" organization / Sybil F. Crawford -- No. 4 Cleaning masonary burial monuments / Tracy L. Coffing -- No. 5 Gravestone rubbing for beginners / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 6 Basic guide to Carver research / Jessie Lie Farber -- No 7 Making photographic records of gravestones / Daniel Farber and Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 8 Symbolism in the carvings on old gravestones / AGS members -- No. 9 Model legislation / Theodore Chase -- No. 10 Making replicas of gravestone designs / Roberta Halporn -- No. 11 Reading weathered marbles tombstones / John E. Sterling -- No. 12 The care of old cemeteries & gravestones / Lance R. Meyer -- No. 13 A technique for the experienced rubber / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 14 How to create a new base / W. Fred Oakley, Jr. -- No. 15 Recommendations for the care of gravestones / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 16 What do you do when you find a "lost" gravestone / Laurel Gabel, Jo Goeselt, Marchia Melnyk, Barbara Rotundo -- No. 17 Recording cemetery data / F. Joanne Baker and Daniel Farber -- No. 18 Discussion and research topics / Barbara Rotundo.

Subjects: Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis, Ind.); Sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries; Rubbing.; Symbolism in art.

Additional Author: Farber, Jessie Lie.; Oakley, Rosalee Points,; Rotundo, Barbara.; Halporn, Roberta.; Fredette, Fred.; Cornish, Michael.; Mayer, Lance.

Additional Corporate Author: Association for Gravestone Studies.; Indianapolis Foundation.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 736.5 M354k

Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Title: Foltz monument

Object ID: 1-08-03-49

Date Range: December 1990

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Title: Foltz monument

Description: Adopt - A - Grave at Lancaster Cemetery - Foltz monument

Provenance: From photo albums of Clyde Groff, donated by Ruth Groff.

Date Range: December 1990

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Adopt-A-Grave; Cemeteries; Gravestones; Headstones; Lancaster Cemetery

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3.5 x 4.5 inches

Object ID: 1-08-03-49

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Abele and Shirk Family Photograph Collection

Title: Monument to Ulrich Shirck I

Object ID: ASF-01-04-02

Date Range: July 1990

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Abele and Shirk Family Photograph Collection

Title: Monument to Ulrich Shirck I

Description: Monument to Ulrich Shirk I at Steinmetz Cemetery near Schoeneck, West Cocalico Twp. Written on back: "Commemorative stone for Ulrich Schurch I and family and descenedants. Steinmetz Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pa. Many early Shirks are buried here. July 1990."