Westlawn Cemetery
Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge, Illinois. The cemetery covers 72 acres (29 ha) and roughly 46,000 people are buried there.
Notable interments
(His conviction was later reversed. He died awaiting a new trial, still legally presumed innocent.)
Vandalism
Westlawn was the site of gravestone desecration in January 2008. At least 57 tombstones were defaced with anti-Semitic slogans. Using white and blue spray paint, the vandal drew swastikas and slurs on tombstones in a western section of the cemetery. A 21-year-old Polish immigrant male was charged with the crime in February 2008. He has been directly linked by police to a neo-Nazi organization in the Chicago area. He was convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
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Westlawn Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)
Westlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Concord Road at Country Road in Westford, Massachusetts. Established in 1761 as the West Burying Ground, it is one of the town's oldest cemeteries. It occupies a roughly triangular plot of 1.7 acres (0.69 ha). There are approximately 400 marked burials, generally laid out in rows running east-west. One of its most prominent burials is that of Captain John Robinson, who led Westford's minutemen in the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park
Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park is a funeral home, cemetery and crematory located at 5701 Center Street in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Westlawn-Hillcrest consists of two cemeteries, the older Westlawn cemetery contains many upright stones, while the newer Hillcrest is a garden plan cemetery where only flat stones are allowed. The N. P. Dodge Co. was the original owner of Westlawn Cemetery. The first burials in Westlawn Cemetery occurred in 1910.
The Westlawn Mausoleum was designed by New York architect Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The structure, costing in excess of $460,000, was built between 1913 and 1915. The Classic Revival and Greco-Roman Temple mausoleum was officially dedicated on September 12, 1915. The structure is made from the same Colorado-Yule marble as the Lincoln Memorial.
In the center of Hillcrest portion of the cemetery, above the Memorial Lawn section, is the Singing Tower. The Art Deco Singing Tower was built in 1931, and was modeled after the famous Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida. The Tower plays music daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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