Histopolis Place-of-the-Day
Histopolis features a different cemetery, town, county or other place every day on the Place-of-The-Day.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The Histopolis Place-of-the-Day for Tuesday, December 14, 2010 is the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Medina County, Ohio.
"Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is the second national cemetery built in Ohio and the 119th in the national cemetery system."Currently, there are more than one million veterans living in the State of Ohio and approximately 540,000 residing in the cemetery’s service area. The first two phases of construction, covering 65 acres of 273-acre cemetery, included 21,000 gravesites, 10,100 columbaria niches and 3,800 in-ground garden niches for cremated remains. At full capacity, Ohio Western Reserve can provide burial space for 106,000 eligible veterans and dependents, well into the next century.
"Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery lies approximately 45 miles south of Cleveland in Medina County near the town of Rittman. The cemetery’s name refers to the part of the Northwest Territory formerly known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, a tract of land in Northeast Ohio reserved by the State of Connecticut when it ceded its claims for western lands to the U.S. government in 1786."
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December 2010
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Note: The first Place-of-the-Day was in September 2010