Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum (200 acres), located at 118 Woodland Avenue, Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

, is one of the oldest "garden" cemeteries in the United States

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Woodland was founded in 1841 by John Whitten Van Cleve (July, 1801–6 September 1858), the first male child born in Dayton. He was the son of Benjamin Van Cleve and Mary Whitten Van Cleve. The cemetery began with 40 acres (161,874.4 m²) southeast of Dayton and has been enlarged to its present size of 200 acre (0.809372 km²).