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| Title | Glendale Cemetery |
| Date | n.d. |
| Description | The Memorial Chapel at the entrance to Glendale Cemetery - officially known as the Akron Rural Cemetery - located on Glendale Avenue in Akron, Ohio. The Akron Rural Cemetery began in 1839 as a 20-acre tract between West Center and South Maple Streets. The land was purchased from General Simon Perkins and Judge Leicester King. By the 1890s, the cemetery had grown to 57 acres, and was more commonly known as Glendale Cemetery. The cemetery was meant to serve both the dead and the living by providing a place for people to retreat from city life to enjoy the beautiful rural scenery. The entrance site was greatly damaged by the 1977 explosion of one of the city's main sewer lines which ran underneath the road between the buildings. |
| Subject | Postcards
Glendale Cemetery
Akron Rural Cemetery
Cemeteries
Akron
Glendale Avenue
Soldiers' Memorial Chapel (Glendale Cemetery)
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| Contributors | On Loan to the Akron-Summit County Public Library
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| Type | Image
Text
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| Format | 3.5 in. x 5.5 in. |
| Source | RC_Glendale_09.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Ruth Wright Clinefelter Postcard Collection
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Additional Information | http://www.nps.gov/history/Nr/travel/ohioeriecanal/gle.htm |
