I first visited Glendale Cemetery back in 2009 and this time I took a closer look.
Search Results for: glendale
Conrad Stormer Statue, Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Illinois
You can’t miss this monument in Glendale Cemetery; set off by itself, and unique among the funerary monuments in the area. Conrad Stormer was a successful lumber mill owner, and his statue is bedecked with various accouterments of his trade. Above, Stormer holds an axe to his side, referring to his lumberjacking. I have no…
Cemetery Road Bridge, Washington, Illinois
I have driven over this bridge dozens of times, and only recently did I realize how interesting a bridge it really was. Glendale Cemetery holds the oldest graves in the town of Washington, and this bridge, from the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed of cut…
An Historic 19th Century Cemetery in Washington, Illinois
Update: This is Glendale Cemetery, and I went back and explored it in greater detail in 2011. You can see those posts here.