Oakdale Cemetery - General view.

Oakdale Cemetery was chartered in 1852, when sixty-five acres were initially acquired. The cemetery was organized in response to a nationwide movement towards large centrally located places of interment, which replaced church and private graveyards and addressed sanitary and health problems in large cities. It was the fifth landscaped cemetery in the United States, following similar ones in Cambridge, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn, NY and Richmond, VA. The first burial in 1855, was that of Annie deRosset, the six year old daughter of one of Oakdale's founding fathers, Dr. Armand deRosset (1807-1897).

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