NRHP Reference # 13001158 Phone +1 828-697-3084 Added to NRHP 5 February 2014 | Area 9 ha Year built 1885 | |
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Built by White, W. T.; Maunder and Campbell Address US-64, Hendersonville, NC 28792, USA Similar Forest Lawn Funeral H, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Shepherd Memorial Park, Thos Shepherd & Sons F, Garden Jubilee Festival | ||
Oakdale cemetery hendersonville north carolina top 5 facts
Oakdale Cemetery is a historic city cemetery and national historic district located at Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was established in 1885, and has approximately 5,400 burials. The property includes the original 1885 white section and 1885 African American section, along with a number of additions made into the 1950s. It includes a section for Agudas Israel Synagogue - Hendersonville's sole Jewish congregation. Historic contributing resources include the cemetery, a frame, octagonal pavilion dating from the turn of the 20th century; a 20th-century, rectangular brick mausoleum with a flat roof and terra cotta coping; a large Neoclassical concrete mausoleum, built in 1951; and a 1950s maintenance building. It includes the Italian marble angel statue which served as the inspiration for Thomas Wolfe's first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.