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100 Plus Year Old Maples at Riverside: The April 20, 1906 issue of the Commercial-Record announced that "A row of maples had just been planted around the new part of the cemetery." Current sexton Aaron Sheridan helped identify where this was and, as you can see above, these trees have done very well over the past 104 years. The photos were taken from each end of "Lilac Street", with the trees appearing on the north side of the road. In 1906, E. H. House had charge of the cemetery and the 30-year-old Mr. House suggested "that those owning lots will do well to attend to them early so that by Decoration Day our cemetery will be in good order." Good advice for our readers today. -contributed by Chris Yoder, Apr 2010
100 Plus Year Old Maples at Riverside

The April 20, 1906 issue of the Commercial-Record announced that "A row of maples had just been planted around the new part of the cemetery." Current sexton Aaron Sheridan helped identify where this was and, as you can see above, these trees have done very well over the past 104 years. The photos were taken from each end of "Lilac Street", with the trees appearing on the north side of the road. In 1906, E. H. House had charge of the cemetery and the 30-year-old Mr. House suggested "that those owning lots will do well to attend to them early so that by Decoration Day our cemetery will be in good order." Good advice for our readers today. -contributed by Chris Yoder, Apr 2010

Name/Title

Tree news

Entry/Object ID

2023.10.401

Scope and Content

Text and images from story previous available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to the online catalog for safekeeping. Plus newspaper clippings about trees as collected by Chris Yoder

Collection

Nature, ecology, the landscape, Cemeteries and graves

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2023.10

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

House, Edwin Harvey 1875-1958, Force, Delos Mettier 1859-1939, Takken, William R. 1871-1932, Brittain, Ralph Case 1842-1905, 321 Water St./Saugatuck Tea Party/Tuscan Pot/Kleeman's Tavern, Kleeman, Reinhold F. 1838-1894 or 1890

General Notes

Note

This information was copied from the pre-2023 SDHC website. The location of an original version was unknown at the time of cataloging.

Create Date

January 11, 2024

Update Date

February 4, 2024