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Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the state’s earliest examples of large park-like burial grounds.
Established in 1859, it followed in the footsteps of the great “rural” or “garden” cemeteries Père Lachaise in Paris (1804) and Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1831). Such cemeteries were designed as long-term solutions to the small churchyards that could not keep pace with the rapidly growing nineteenth century cities.
Historic Lindenwood Cemetery chronicles its history as well as many of the over 74,000 interred who left their mark, whether great or small. This book features nearly 100 beautiful photographs along with history to illustrate the gravesites of notable area citizens.
Randolph L. Harter is a Fort Wayne historian by avocation and has written two previous books on the area’s history. He also writes the Old School Picture column for Fort Wayne Reader newspaper, is a frequent speaker at area service organizations, non-profits, and business groups, and is founder of the Fort Wayne History Roundtable.
Daniel Baker is a Fort Wayne documentarian and archivist. He is a contributor to the Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center and several preservation groups. This is his second book with Harter; their first being Fort Wayne Through Time.
