Greenlawn Cemetery | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
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]