Mount Olive Cemetery (Chicago)

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Mount Olive Cemetery
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The front arch of Mount Olive Cemetery
Mount Olive Cemetery (Chicago)
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Established1889 (1889)
Location
Chicago, Illinois
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 41°56′58″N87°47′29″W / 41.94944°N 87.79139°W / 41.94944; -87.79139
Owned by Dignity Memorial
No. of interments>19,000
Website Official website
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Mount Olive Cemetery is a landscaped cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by Chicago's Scandinavian community in 1886. It is located at 3800 North Narragansett Avenue and is adjacent to Zion Gardens cemetery. [1]

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History

In 1886, the Scandinanvian Lutheran Cemetery Association purchased 65 acres south of the village of Dunning and established a community cemetery. The Association was renamed Mt. Olive in 1903. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway used to run supply trains to the Cook County Poor Farm and Insane Asylum through the cemetery, as well as funeral trains to the two adjacent cemeteries. [2]

Notable burials

References

  1. ↑ Bielski, Ursula; Hucke, Matt (2013). Graveyards of Chicago. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press. pp. 172–174. ISBN   978-0964242647.
  2. ↑ Karlen, Harvey (1992). Chicago's Crabgrass Communuties: The History of the Independent Suburbs and their Post Offices that Became Part of Chicago. The Collectors Club of Chicago. pp. 186–187. ISBN   0-916675-04-1.
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