The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
Lake Park Cemetery.

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Some years ago to associate the name
"Lake Park with a cemetery did not seem
proper; but time makes many changes, and
people look at and think of them as they ap'
pear.
| Those who have once visited Lake ParB
Cemetery have no thought of anything but
a beautiful park-like place for the burial
of the dead.
Lake Park Cemetery Company was or
gained for the purpose of providing 8
tasteful and proper place of sepulch1e out
side of our various church yards, which are
gradually being surrounded by buildings
and which must, in a few years at least, give
way to the march of improvement, when
the bodies already inferred will have to be
removed.
The present site-a tract of twenty-five
acres-of the most picturesque in GIouces-
ter county, or possibly in South Jersey, was
purchased in 1892, and the work of convert
ing it into the pretty place it now is, was
commenced.
Lake Park is one hundred feet above tide
water, and is seventy feet above the waters
of Lake Naritticon, which surrounds 1t on
two sides.
TIL plot selected, while near to the viii
lage, is separated from it by a stream of
water, and in all probability that section
beyond the stream will never be desired for
residence or business purposes. 1t is com.
posed of both level and rolling ground, so
that all tastes can be suited with any de-
scription of lot or vault desired.
The cemetery is laid out in a manner tina 1
meets the approval OF the best landscape
gardeners, the whole being on a plan radia-
ting by convenient avenues from q central
ellipse. The main avenues are 20 feet wide,
the cross avenues s feet wide, and the walks
. feet, thus giving a choice in shape and
general contour of the lots, which range in
size from 23S square feet to 70 square feet to
the lot. A plot has been laid out for single
graves, and, taking it all together it is one
of the prettiest spots for a rural cemetery.
Access to the grounds is by a broad avenue
from Lake avenue.
In orderto secure a permanent improve
ment of the cemetery, ten per cent of the
money received from the sale of lots is set
apart as a fund, and the interest will be used
for that purpose only.
The wagon roads are kept in good order.
and the gravel walks are well drained and
always hard and dry. The space between
the lots is lawn, and is five feet wide, max
ing a beautiful landscape.
The management is vested in a board of
managers, chosen annually, who elect a
president, secretary, treasurer and execu-
tive committee, who elect a superintendent
for the grounds, and whose duty and pleas
ure it is to show any one over the grounds
and give any desired information.
Over one hundred lots have been sold.
and taking into consideration the short
time the cemetery has been laid out, it has
made very rapid progress.
Nature having supplied such a beautiful
location for a cemetery within half a mile
of the center of the town, our citizens
should give the management encourage
ment and aid in it's improvement.
Who las not witnessed the condition of
burial grounds with no care takers and felt
sad to look at them There is no place
where cleanliness is more akin to Goodness
than in the final resting place of the dead,
and it should be gratifying to know tina
after our earthly career has been run we
can be laid to rest in It place so fitting as
Lake Park Cemetery.