Walnut Hills Cemetery is located at 3117 Victory Parkway in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery opened in 1843, under the name of "The Second German Protestant Cemetery" and comprises about 5 acres (20,000 m2). In 1941, at the beginning of World War II, the name was changed to Walnut Hills Cemetery. Today, the cemetery sits on over 70 acres (280,000 m2).
Famous quotes containing the words hills and/or cemetery:
“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)