Past Events at Woodland
Cemetery
Please
join us on Sunday June 14, 2009 at 1:00pm at Woodland Cemetery as
Woodland turns 156 years-old for the Ohio Historical Marker Dedication
and Living History Tour. Come learn your history of the famous
and not-so-famous as stories are told through the past with a
self-guided tour following the marker dedication.
Ohio
Historical Marker Dedication/Living History
Tour Flier
Press
release
Come
join us for the 1st Annual
Historic Cemetery Scavenger Hunt/Poker Run/Car Cruise on August 2,
2008 at
10:00am. This is a joint cemetery alliance with Woodland Cemetery
Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation and
Ohio Cemetery Alliance.
Memorial
Day 2008 Honoring James
Franklin Gayle. Mr. Gayle was a WWII US
Navy musician and the first black photographer for the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
April
2008, the 7th OVI canons are being restored courtesy of the
International Painters Union District #6.
The
Eagles
have landed at Woodland Cemetery
Please join us in the dedication of the Eagles for Col. William R.
Crane and Lt. Col. Orrin J. Crane on Saturday, August 4, 2007
11:00am.
For
Decoration Day Weekend 2007 information, please follow this link http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohclecem/woodlanddecorationday2007.html
We are
planning a wonderful 2007 Woodland Cemetery Decoration
Day (Memorial Day) ceremony in
conjunction with the Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument. For the
Decoration Day ceremony at Woodland Cemetery we are restoring two
gravesites of notable Civil War veterans. If you
would like to help please click on this link regarding
the Eagle
Project Restoration.
Also, we will be placing flags on the veterans graves on Memorial
Sunday (May 27th) at 9:00am with a small service. Come help us
honor nearly 2,100 veterans from the War of 1812 to a recent veteran
burial in 2004.
Woodland Cemetery turned
150-years
old June 14, 2003. The ceremony was wonderful and all had a great
time. You can see the schedule of events and learn about Woodland's
150th Anniversary.
Wednesday
May 24, 2006 The Memorial Day
Association and many
volunteers placed flags on veteran graves in Woodland Cemetery.
Channel 3 (WKYC) was very kind to air our efforts and the Cleveland
Plain Dealer wrote an article appearing in the May 25th edition.
See the
video from Channel 3.