Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-03
Forest Hill Cemetery.-The u

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gent demand for some other than the
old burial ground as a depository for
the cherished forms of our dead, has
induced our old and esteemed citizen,
Hon. Joseph Wood, to appropriate a
portion of his valuable property on the
old Plover road to the purpose of a
cemetery, to which he has given the
above title The spot selected is just
east of the city limits on the line of
the G. B. & NJ. r. r. The platt
comprising in all % acres, lies north
of the road Twenty-Five acres are
appropriated to the Cemetery proper
and three acres to that very necessary
adjunct, a Potters Field. The grounds
chosen are all that could be desired +;
the ground gradually rising from the
road till it reaches quite an elevation,
and the whole thickly studded with
trees, principally oak and poplar,
We believe it is the intention of the
Judge to put out in the spring coming
large number of beautiful elms
which will materially add to the beau
ty of the grounds as they shall devol-
op. The design of the cemetery has
been studied with much care Passing
from the street fine avenue thirty
feet In width leads to the Grand Circle
some five hundred feet from the en-
trance, making a junction with an
avenue running east and west, of the
width of twenty feet. Around the
whole of the enclosed grounds extends
an avenue the width of which is TWEEN
ty-Gve feet. Into these avenues are
leading lesser avenues for pedestrians,
the width of which is eight feet.
These walks are at intervals Of forty
feet running parallel from east to west
upon the higher ground, and with the
opposite points of the compass as you
approach the entrance gateway in
your exit from the grounds The
Grand Circle will be beautiful spot
when completed, though we think it
too small by half. It's diameter is
fifty-eight feet, an eight feet walk en-
circling it, which is to be ornamented
with choice flowers and grasses. '.The
Circle is pleasantly located upon land
sloping to the south. which will insure
it in the season of flowers the genial
warmth of the sun and present to the
eye a most pleasing landscape as one
approaches the grounds. The lots
number fourteen hundred and all
are desirable. Those near ''the circle
are the most desirable, owing to the
elevation. and consequent dryness,
but all the lots are desirable and as we
understand are being taken up quite
rapidly without regard to locality.
A very beautiful design OF the
grounds has been executed by Mr..
Coats which will give to those wishing
to purchase, all desired information.
Mr.. Wood has expended upon the
preparation of the grounds some S.
900. One year ago it was mass Of
tangled Wild wood" and an under
growth of brush which had to be torn
out, and the ground in some localities
broken. The whole Of the grounds
begin now to put on an appearance of
beauty which will grow more and more
beautiful as the years shall adorn it
with foliage, and the stern messenger
before whose sceptre we must all bow
shall summon many to dwell in the ST.
lent city of the dead, where upon
grassy mounds shall arise marble
adornments like white caps upon a
billowy sea, making all so beautiful
though sad.