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History
ERIE CEMETERY - The Beginning: The
Erie Cemetery was dedicated on May 20th, 1851. The first
Superintendent of the Erie Cemetery was Capt. Samuel
Low, a civil engineer, who also served as City Surveyor.
In his making of the grounds he was tasteful and artistic
and planned lots, paths, walkways, avenues and ornamental
plots of beauty and symmetry.
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It
was the love of nature that directed the earnest and energetic
men that composed the first Board of Managers of the Erie Cemetery
to "arrange for the tender mother (mother nature) this
sanctuary wherein she could chant above the quiet slumbers
her unending psalm of rest and to whisper to the sorrowing
and desolate that come to morn at the chamber door, her own
glad story of a joyful resurrection."
"The
grave is robbed of more than half its terrors by the transformation
that surely has been suggested by love - that certainly has
been prompted by humanity." |
ERIE
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION - Now: The Erie Cemetery
Association comprises 3 locations - the Erie Cemetery at
21st and Chestnut, Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery at Route
8 six miles South of Erie, and Laurel Hill Cemetery off
Route 832, Sterrettania Road, West of Erie. Each of these
cemeteries is maintained by the Association with grounds
that reflect a devoted attention to quality grounds care,
maintenance of their striking natural beauty, where perpetual
care is the hallmark and each providing a resting place
where simplicity reigns.
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