Past Events at Woodland Cemetery
Black History Tour 2012 was held at Woodland Cemetery on June 24th. This event was sponsored by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and the United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland.
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A Two Year Old Robbie Brown - Murdered...
Robbie was honored on Black History Day - June 24, 2012.
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Memorial Day 2012 (May 28, 2012) recognized the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812.
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A Tour of the Murdered and the Murderers was held in Woodland Cemetery on October 2, 2011. Click Here for Details. Watch the website for information on next year's tour!
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Memorial Day Services were held at Woodland Cemetary on
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. This year's services honored African American Civil War Veterans buried at Woodland Cemetery. Our guest speaker was nationally honored educator Paul La Rue.
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Boy Scouts of America
Celebration of the 100th Anniversary
September 25, 2010
The Historic Cleveland Cemeteries Scavenger Hunt was held on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. The tour started at Erie Street Cemetery and ended at Woodland Cemetery, with separate scavenger hunt forms at each location.
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The Woodland Cemetery Foundation Annual Living History 2010 was held on Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. This provided an opportunity to investigate important historical aspects of Cleveland and Woodland Cemetery. (If you would like to participate in events such as this, please contact Michelle at
m.day@wcfcle.org)
Program and Information
Mandy and Zach portray
"Ida" and "Charlie"
Living History Tour 2010
"Ida" and her doll
Living History Tour 2010
"Ida" and "Charlie"
Living History Tour 2010
Don Schulze
Gate Prize Winner
Living History Tour 2010
Photos by: Bill Christen
Memorial Day celebration was held at Woodland Cemetery on Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Flag Placement on May 22,23 & 29 at 9:00 a.m.
Memorial Day Brochure
Boy Scout Color Guard
Memorial Day 2010
Civil War Honor Guard
Memorial Day 2010
Double Taps
Memorial Day 2010
Saluting Couple
Memorial Day 2010
Photos by: Carl Staub
June 14, 2009 — On Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 1:00pm Woodland Cemetery turned 156 years-old. We celebrated the Ohio Historical Marker Dedication and Living History Tour.
2008 — 23rd Ohio Monument Landscaping Project One of the many other projects we worked towards in 2008 was the re-landscaping of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry monument back to the late 1800's style that was surrounded by boxwood hedges. This is one of the first Civil War monuments in the country.
2008 — Ohio Historical Marker for Woodland Cemetery Help us put Woodland Cemetery on the map!! Thank you!! We want to thank everyone who were so gracious in helping us achieve our goal in raising funds for the Ohio Historical Marker.
August 2, 2008 — We celebrated the 1st Annual Historic Cemetery Scavenger Hunt/Poker Run/Car Cruise on August 2, 2008 at 10:00am. This was a joint cemetery alliance with Woodland Cemetery Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation and Ohio Cemetery Alliance.
May 26, 2008 — Memorial Day 2008 Honoring James Franklin Gayle. Mr. Gayle was a WWII US Navy musician and the first black photographer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
April 2008 — The 7th OVI canons were restored courtesy of the International Painters Union District #6.
August 4, 2007 — The Eagles have landed at Woodland Cemetery We celebrated the dedication of the Eagles for Col. William R. Crane and Lt. Col. Orrin J. Crane on Saturday, August 4, 2007 11:00am.
May 28, 2007 — We celebrated a wonderful 2007 Woodland Cemetery Decoration Day (Memorial Day) ceremony in conjunction with the Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument. For the Decoration Day ceremony at Woodland Cemetery we restored two gravesites of notable Civil War veterans. Please click on this link for information regarding the Eagle Project Restoration. We honored nearly 2,100 veterans from the War of 1812 to a recent veteran burial in 2004.
May 24, 2006 — Woodland Cemetery turned 150-years old June 14, 2003. The ceremony was wonderful and all had a great time.
Wednesday May 24, 2006
The Memorial Day Association and many volunteers placed flags on veteran graves in Woodland Cemetery. Channel 3 (WKYC) was very kind to air our efforts and the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote an article appearing in the May 25th edition. See the
video from Channel 3.
Click here to view upcoming events at Woodland Cemetery. We hope you will join us at a future gathering. See you at the cemetery!