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Oak Hill burial ground, situated simply north of downtown, is Birmingham, Alabama’s oldest burial ground. Originally twenty one.5 acres (87,000 m2) on the estate of James M. Ware, it had been already a site by Gregorian calendar month 1869 once it served because the resting place for the baby female offspring of future city manager parliamentarian H. Henley. It had been marked as “City Cemetery” on the initial plats for Birmingham ordered out by the Elyton Land Company and was formally sold-out to town on Gregorian calendar month twenty nine, 1873 for the total of $1,073.50.
Most of the ten,000 just about burials at Oak Hill were inhumed before 1930, together with 9 of the 10 landholders World Health Organization supported town, several early mayors, a Revolutionary soldier, varied yankee war veterans, and therefore the initial child born within the town. Though few records exist from the time, most believe the “Potter’s Field” section was conjointly used because the final resting place for several victims of the 1873 Asiatic cholera epidemic.
In 1977, Oak Hill burial ground was supplementary to the National Register of Historic Places. The Oak Hill Memorial Association keeps Associate in Nursing workplace within the former caretaker’s house and revealed a quarterly story, the Oak Hill Pioneer, from Winter 1999 to Fall 2006, with articles regarding the history of town within the context of the lives of these buried at Oak Hill.
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