出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/07 12:42 UTC 版)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, formerly Oakdale Cemetery, is located in east-central Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was established in 1856 and designed by Captain George F. de la Roche, who had finished the design of Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. five years earlier. It is considered a rural or garden cemetery and covers more than 78 acres (32 ha). The first burial at Oakdale was that of three-year-old Mary Larned Allen on September 15, 1857. Some of the graves in the cemetery had been transferred from the overcrowded City Cemetery in the west end. The cemetery is located across Eastern Avenue from the former Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and it contains the graves of the orphans that died at the home. There is a Soldiers Lot, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The cemtery also contains a section for the burial of pets.