Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Green_Bay,_Wisconsin)

Woodlawn Cemetery (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Woodlawn Cemetery (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Cemetery located in Allouez, Wisconsin

Woodlawn Cemetery is an all-faith cemetery located in Allouez, Wisconsin, United States, under a Green Bay address. Originally incorporated in 1857 by several prominent city leaders, burials did not begin at the cemetery until 1867.[1] It is the city's oldest all-faiths cemetery.[note 1]

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History

The cemetery was incorporated in 1857, shortly after Green Bay's official incorporation, by several Green Bay politicians as a "non-profit, non-sectarian cemetery."[1] The founding group included future mayors Henry S. Baird, Nathan Goodell, Burley Follett, Charles D. Robinson, H. E. Eastman, Francis X. Desnoyers, as well as future senator and U.S. Postmaster Timothy O. Howe and town postmaster Daniel W. King. The cemetery's original plots were set to be in the city's Baird Park, but were moved to the current cemetery in 1867.

Notable burials

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Fort Howard Memorial Park, the city's other all-faiths cemetery, was founded in 1862. http://www.forthoward.net/index.php/history/our-history/

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