Chippiannock burial site may be a burial site settled on twelfth Street and thirty first Avenue in Rock Island, Illinois. The word “Chippiannock” may be a Native yank term which suggests “place of the dead”.
Rock Island was in want of a permanent burial site in 1854. The town’s population was five,000 and therefore the dead were being buried somewhat haphazardly in Bailey Davenport’s pasture, that is currently Longview Park. The primary board of administrators of the Chippiannock burial site Association enclosed Holmes Hakes, S.S. Guyer, William L. Lee, Bailey Davenport and Henry A. Porter. In 1855 Chippiannock’s founders purchased sixty two acres (25 ha) on Manitou Ridge and secured the services of noted landscaper Almerin Hotchkiss to style a burial site marbled within the rural burial site form of Mt. Chromatic in Massachusetts (America’s initial garden-style cemetery). Almerin Hotchkiss additionally designed Green-Wood burial site in borough and Bellefontaine burial site in St. Louis.
The property consists of a western slope and therefore the crest of Manitou Ridge. The positioning additionally options gently rolling wooded hills that climb to a broad highland. It’s settled close to the center between the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. Hotchkiss designed a system of curved driveways winding round the varied burial sections.
The landscape style and spectacular samples of art and design earned the burial site National Register standing in could 1994. The burial site was the third burial site in Illinois to receive this recognition.
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