Greenwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Michigan)

This article is about the Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan. For other graveyards named Greenwood Cemetery, see Greenwood Cemetery.
Greenwood Cemetery
Some Grave Markers at the Greenwood Cemetery
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Location
Oak Avenue, Birmingham, Michigan
Size7.9 acres (3.2 ha)
No. of gravesOver 3,000

Greenwood Cemetery occupies 7.9 acres (32,000 m2) on Oak Avenue between Greenwood and Lake Streets, west of Old Woodward Avenue, in Birmingham, Michigan. The gently rolling landscape contains over 3,000 graves; 650 date from the nineteenth century. The grounds display a plethora of limestone, marble, cast zinc and granite monuments. An iron fence with low stone piers flanking the entrance fronts the cemetery. In 1885 the Greenwood Cemetery Association was established to maintain the burial ground. When the Association was dissolved in 1946, the city of Birmingham assumed the ownership and maintenance of the cemetery.[1]

  1. ^ Michigan State Historical Preservation Objects website, "Greenwood Cemetery," accessed at http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/hso/sites/10771.htm Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine