Facts About Woodlawn
- Organized August 31, 1850 - Incorporated 1855
- 153 Acres - 21 acres conveyed to Everett leaving Woodlawn 132 acres
- Private nonsectarian, not for profit corporation full service cemetery
- Henry Weld Fuller was the Treasurer / General Agent from 1850 - 1889 and primary developer of the cemetery
- Presently over 120,000 people at rest here
- Chapel was dedicated in September of 1911 - Rededicated 1998
- Architect was Loring and Phipps of Boston, Stained glass windows by Horace J. Phipps & Co. and builders were T. Wilson & son
- First burial - Augustus F. Bowen on July 1, 1851
- Five Congressional Medal of Honor recipients interred at Woodlawn
- Four military Sections
- Irrigation / (3) deep drilled wells
- State of the art greenhouse complex
- Patton Memorial Hall
- Crematory - The original crematory & columbarium were completed in 1940
- Mausoleum
- Columbaria
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