Cemetery Entrances

Photos for Prints, Canvas, Wall Art, Greeting Cards, and Keepsakes of Cemetery Entrances from the back roads, small towns, and cities of America

Recreated Arched Entrance, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois

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Recreated Arched Entrance, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois

This gate, situated in a narrow valley dividing the cemetery’s rolling hills dotted with oak trees, remained a solemn witness not only to the scores of funerals it would host but also its most famous funeral: that of President Abraham Lincoln on May 4, 1865.

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