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| Location: | Suitland, Maryland |
Cedar Hill Cemetery, previously known as Forest Lake Cemetery, and also formerly Nonesuch Plantation, is a cemetery located in Suitland, Maryland.
Following a series of land purchases starting in 1890, Forest Lake Cemetery was chartered and opened in 1895, but by 1913 few bodies were buried there.[1]
In 1913, after going bankrupt in the wake of a failed 1908 sale to a developer, of the 400acres Forest Lake Cemetery were sold to form the Cedar Hill Cemetery.[2] [3]
Over time, the cemetery was expanded, and it is now over 150acres in size. The oldest tombstone reads "Philenia W. Patte, Nov. 19, 1871, 58 years".
From 1936 to 1938, Dionicio Rodriguez, a Mexican builder and artist, built six pieces in concrete at Cedar Hill, most using a faux bois technique to make them resemble wood. He built two footbridges, a bench, a table in a pergola, a hollow "tree trunk", and an Annie Laurie Wishing Chair, also in a pergola.[4]
The cemetery has a mass grave for the victims of the Terra Cotta Railroad wreck.