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Architect
  
Saunders, William

Area
  
148 ha

Year built
  
1855

NRHP Reference #
  
95000986

Phone
  
+1 217-789-2340

Added to NRHP
  
4 August 1995

Oak Ridge Cemetery

Location
  
1441 Monument Ave., Springfield, Illinois

Architectural style
  
Classical Revival, Romanesque

Address
  
1441 Monument Ave, Springfield, IL 62702, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8AM–8PMTuesday8AM–8PMWednesday8AM–8PMThursday8AM–8PMFriday8AM–8PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday8AM–8PMSuggest an edit

Burials
  
Abraham Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln

Similar
  
Lincoln Tomb, Lincoln Home National, Old State Capitol, Abraham Lincoln President, Lincoln‑Herndon Law Offices State Hist

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Oak Ridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois, in the United States.

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The Lincoln Tomb, which serves as the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of his children, is located at Oak Ridge. A number of other prominent politicians and persons from Illinois are also buried at the cemetery.

As a result of Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge is the second-most visited cemetery in the United States, after Arlington National Cemetery.

Oak Ridge is the 3rd and now only public cemetery in Springfield, the other two cemeteries were the City Cemetery and Hutchinson. Oak Ridge was designed by William Saunders as part of the Rural Cemetery Landscape Lawn Style. The location of the cemetery was carefully selected because of the topography, which included rolling hills which was key in the Rural Cemetery Landscape Lawn Style. The many oak trees in the cemetery is how Oak Ridge got its name. The ridge borders low-lying Spring Creek, creating landscaped topography unusual in central Illinois.

The newest section, in the southwest, of Oak Ridge opened after 1945. The design follows the Memorial Park style cemetery in which roadways are wider to accommodate vehicles.

The Cemetery has memorials for the Korean War, World War II and the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial. A museum of Central Illinois African-American history is located adjacent to the cemetery.

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Notable burials

  • William Henry Bissell
  • Jacob Bunn
  • John Whitfield Bunn
  • Daniel Pope Cook
  • John Cook
  • Shelby Moore Cullom
  • Jesse K. Dubois
  • Ninian Edwards
  • William Lee D. Ewing
  • William Herndon
  • Elijah Iles
  • William Jayne
  • John J. H. Kelly (Medal of Honor)
  • Robert Carr Lanphier
  • John L. Lewis
  • Abraham Lincoln – sixteenth President of the United States during the Civil War
  • Mary Todd Lincoln – Abraham's wife
  • Fleetwood Lindley – the last person to have looked upon Lincoln's face in September 1901
  • Vachel Lindsay
  • John Alexander McClernand
  • Alfred Orendorff
  • John Carroll Power – first custodian of Lincoln's Tomb
  • Rev. John Calvin Rice
  • Alexander StarneIllinois Secretary of State and Illinois Treasurer
  • John T. Stuart – U.S. Congressman, lawyer, law partner of Abraham Lincoln
  • John Riley Tanner
  • Arthur Harrison Wilson (Medal of Honor)
  • References

    Oak Ridge Cemetery Wikipedia


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