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Ar DaviM'f Fort Wajfnt Timet.LIN DEN WOOD CEMETERY.The pressing necessity so long felt in this community for a retired end appropriate resting place for the dead, has at lepgth been met. The grounds arc to be dedicated forovcr to this use, at 10 o’clock on Wednesday, and immediately after the ceremonies the lots will bo sold. Of the peculiar fitness and exceeding ' I beauty of these grounds, the most favorableopinion has been expressed by citizens and 81rangers who have visited the spot. S.xty-— fjve acrcs have been enclosed by a substantial ! fence. Of this some ten acres on the East and friends ■ five acres on the West are lowlands, intersected at 'ted by small streams, adapting it uwst admir-ithusi-1 ably to purposes of the highest ornament, by „en— ! artificial lakes, lawns and trees. So soon as icii we ‘ the practiced eye of tho eldtft Chislett from where, j the l*itUburgli Cemetery, caught a view of teutral this low ground, he remarked that if it could ppoaed (be transferred to Greenwood, an enormous price would be paid for it. The remaining fifty acres has been divided by carriage roads into twenty-one sections of from one and a half to three acres each. These carriage avenues. meandering along tho valleys between these sections, at the foot of beautiful slopes, amount in their aggregate length to over three miles. Three of the most beautiful and commanding sections, B. F. and H., have been laid off in lots to suit every variety of taste.The adornment of the ground has of coursu only been commenced. The plans of improvement have, however, been carefully matured by landscape gardeners of the highest repute. They embrace the usud variety of artificial lakes, ornamented circles, open glades, and native woodland. Section A, adjoining the entrance, is to l»c reserved as a park, belonging alike to every lot-holdcr. The extent to which those plans can be carried out depends upon the liberality of our citizens in the purchase of lots, the entire proceeds of which, after paying current expanses, and refunding purchase money, is pledged forever to this object. The Cemetery belongs, therefore, to the citizens of Fort Wayne and their children and children's children. It is for them to make it a place of beauty, alleviating, so for as human agency can alleviate, the sadness that clusters around the grave* W,Mr* Noel and the Prize Fight.ExO Hall tion 1st ( noonIt! inipi cour dilig in I* that cour dutj hibii to (I syra crall nger ntea V witl TheCat iforbottandsuit’Imalnot1droifeeltiorlUwandfJandsarMr0in a citi: itisj cotr any not wet beg pos serC
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Dawsons Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, May 30, 1860
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