Greenlawn Cemetery (Franklin, Indiana) Explained

Greenlawn Cemetery
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Location:100 W. South St., Franklin, Indiana
Coordinates:39.4778°N -86.06°W
Architecture:Gothic Revival, Romanesque
Added:June 25, 2013
Refnum:13000421[1]

Greenlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery and national historic district located at Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. It is a landscape-lawn style cemetery established in 1845, and contains roughly 15,000 burials. Located in the cemetery is a small Gothic Revival style chapel (1878, now cemetery office) and the Romanesque Revival Main Mausoleum (1911).

Notable burials at Greenlawn include US Congressman William W. Wick (1796–1868), Governor Roger D. Branigin (1902–1975), Mayor Lemuel Ertus Slack (1874–1952), and Hall of Fame basketball player Fuzzy Vandivier (1903–1983).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Listings. 2013-07-05. Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/24/13 Through6/28/13. National Park Service.
  2. Web site: Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) . Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology . Searchable database. 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Greenlawn Cemetery. 2016-05-01. Wallis Wyckoff McMillin and Rebecca Smith. PDF. October 2011. and Accompanying photographs.