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New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetary, Aragon, Georgia. The bare tree hovering over the tombstones was just spooky enough for me to take this shot
The Lorain County Visitors Bureau is once again hosting the Lorain County Beautiful Awards. They are in their second decade of celebrating some of the most beautiful architecture and landscaping in Lorain County. As part of this event, they display an image of all of the nominees at the Awards celebration in November. Lorain's Charleston Cemetary is a 2007 nominee.
The little cemetery on 6th (once known as Bank Street) was all but forgotten. The graves of the settlers down trodden and their headstones used as bases for baseball games by local children through the decades, people taking their dogs to the green place to defecate - its primary purpose that as a place of final rest slowly decaying over the decades until it was almost lost.
But the little cemetery found an advocate and for over two decades Diane Medina by sheer tenacity has discovered, preserved, researched, written, talked to whomever would listen ,nagged and pulled back the cemetery from almost total destruction and historic amnesia so that those interred there would not be forgotten.
Frank Sipkovsky, of the Black River Historical Society in the last year has acted as the general contractor of the restoration project to give this historic landmark the due it deserves.
Many people have given their time, talent, expertise and money to recognize the people who took this city from the woods and swamps and staying for eternity.
They, the “restorers” are the ”people”, who do not look for credit or thanks but it is “thanks to the “people” phase one of the cemetery project is nearing completion. Although there is still a long way to go to make the cemetery worthy of it’s historical status and due reverence to a group of people who clawed from the wilderness a home we know as Lorain, the first steps have been taken.
We have, thanks to their generosity, been able to purchase the archways for the entranceways on 6th Street and 7th Street designed by Gary Fischer of Arkinetics (gratis)
The bricks are a mixture of those from the torn down Hawthorne School (Lorain City Schools) and to a donation of bricks by Mr. Mike Bruder- Bruder Building Materials Inc
Mr. Ken Kudela of I.U of Brickworkers & Allied Craftworkers, Northern Ohio Administrative District Council-Local #5 and his apprentices laid the bricks.
But even before that could happen stumps of trees had to be removed and the ground prepared (City of Lorain- Chuck Camera and Bob Renney)
Preparation of the site with the backhoe equipment and labor-Jim Campana joined the group. Next came the concrete Pete Falbo of Terminal Ready Mix -he also was there ! Even coffee and donuts were sent over by Ben Fligner of Fligners Market
Landmark plaques were donated by Boyer and Cool-Home for Funerals
The Lorain High Class of 1946 : paid fully for the one wrought iron archway on the 6th street side.
The other archway for 7th street and the sandstone caps paid for by donations from:
Lorain International, Tom Koba, Phil Seguin, Maureen and Jeff Smith, Palma and Tim Stipe , Anonymous, Loraine Ritchey and stipends from performances given by Diane Medina, Renee Dore, Dave Cotton and yours truly to the following organizations:
Peter Miller Museum, Avon Historical Society, Black River Historical Society, Amherst Historical Society, Amherst Heritage House, Black River Genealogists, 1st Congregational Supper Club, Lorain County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, Lorain Public Library Systems and Bay Area Divers.
**** NOTE: We are still working on getting the wrought iron fence, lighting, sidewalks , a memorial statue to the pioneers, flowering shrubs and trees to replace the diseased ones that had to be taken out and also mapping and preserving the headstones . So that as was decreed in 1834 becomes a reality
The one-acre cemetery plot between the present 6th and 7th streets west of Washinton-av, with the following restrictions: To remain forever a public burying ground and to be under the control of the Town Council of the Town of Charleston”
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Convinced my dad to take myself and Daisy to the local cemetary to take photos of the old fashioned roses that are planted there. They're at their best in early December, but there were still some out :)
Cemetary located just south of Stockholm city centre. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz.
The building in this photo is the porticoed crematorium (1940)
There are hardly any Jews left in Marrakech - most having left in the latter half of the last century - but the old cemetary is a pretty incredible place, and the number of graves here indicate what a big community it used to be.
Here it is from above.