Join us at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS on Tuesday July 23rd, 2024!
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Oak Hill Cemetery
1605 Oak Hill Ave. Lawrence, KS 66044
7/23/2024 9am-3pm

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Oak Hill Cemetery
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“An early example of the "rural cemetery" movement, Oak Hill was founded in 1865 to re-inter victims of Quantrill's raid of August 21, 1863. The cemetery the victims were first buried in was far out of the city limits. Burials of note include James Lane, first US Senator from KS; John Speer, member of the territorial legislature and abolitionist newspaper editor; Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first woman to graduate with a DDS in the US and the first woman dentist in KS; Charles and Mary Langston, civil rights activists and grandparents of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes; Dr. Charles L. Robinson, a founder of the city of Lawrence and KS governor from 1861-1863.”

*The info above and images below are provided by our local event co-host, Denise Pettengill with the Douglas County Historical Society*