Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse
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Oakwood Cemetery is a 160 acre historic cemetery located in Syracuse, NY. It was designed by Howard Daniels and built in 1859. Oakwood Cemetery was created during a time period in the nineteenth century when the rural cemetery was becoming a distinct landscape type, and is a good example of this kind of landscape architecture.
[edit] Notable interments
- Union Major General Edwin Vose Sumner (1797-1863)
- Edward Gayer Andrews, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Jesse Truesdell Peck, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
