Lake View Cemetery

Lake View Cemetery is located on the east side of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, along the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights borders. There are over 104,000 people buried at Lake View, with more than 700 burials each year. There are 70 acres (0.28 km) remaining for future development. Known locally as "Cleveland's Outdoor Museum," Lake View Cemetery is home to the James A. Garfield Memorial, Wade Memorial Chapel, which features an interior designed by Louis Tiffany, as well as an 80,000,000-US-gallon (300,000,000 l) capacity concrete-filled dam. Lake View Cemetery was founded in 1869 and sits on 285 acres (1.15 km) of land. The cemetery is so named because it is partially located in the "heights" area of Greater Cleveland, with a view...