Oakdale Cemetery - Monument of Henry Bacon.

Monument is to Henry Bacon (1866-1924), who spent his childhood in Wilmington while his father, Henry Bacon, Sr. (1822-1891), was the chief engineer for the "Rocks", a Federal navigation project (begun in 1875) to close New Inlet near Federal Point, which was an attempt to eliminate shoals, that formed in the Cape Fear River channel. The younger Bacon was the architect of the Lincoln Memorial and he designed his tombstone, a smooth stone stela (an inscribed stone), with a delicately cut palmate top. Inscription on marker: "Henry Bacon, 1866-1924; The Architect of the Lincoln Memorial at Washington; Laura Calvert Bacon, 1862-1945." (Sec D, Lot #20) (Also see #10 for more information about Oakdale Cemetery)

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