Washington Street Cemetery
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Washington Street Cemetery

Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, USA

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    Painesville, Ohio 44092 United States
    Coordinates: 41.72083, -81.24639
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Washington Street Cemetery (Extinct)

Almost all the people listed in this cemetery were never moved and remain buried under a parking lot

Washington Street Cemetery was located on West Washington Street, originally occupying sublots 51, 52, 76, and 77 of the Kerr, Cole & Others Survey. The history of the Liberty Street Cemetery indicates that its graves were moved to the Washington Street Cemetery in 1821. Later sublots 49 (west half), 50, 74 (west half), and 75 were added to the cemetery. This site is now east of Harvey High School and occupied by a parking lot and field.

In the early 1890s the Painesville Board of Education saw the need to build a new high school. The vacant land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been attracted their attention. The Village council transferred the property to the school board on December 5th, 1896, and they began the process of transforming "a wasted place into a beautiful site for a new high School building." Since that time the land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been has been part of the high school grounds.

The fact that some of the graves had never been removed has periodically come back to haunt school officials.



The cemetery is located in city of Painesville, Painesville Township, Lake County, Ohio, and is # 6339 (Washington Street Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society, which gives the GPS coordinates of the cemetery as 41° 43' 15"N, 81° 14' 47"W.









Washington Street Cemetery (Extinct)

Almost all the people listed in this cemetery were never moved and remain buried under a parking lot

Washington Street Cemetery was located on West Washington Street, originally occupying sublots 51, 52, 76, and 77 of the Kerr, Cole & Others Survey. The history of the Liberty Street Cemetery indicates that its graves were moved to the Washington Street Cemetery in 1821. Later sublots 49 (west half), 50, 74 (west half), and 75 were added to the cemetery. This site is now east of Harvey High School and occupied by a parking lot and field.

In the early 1890s the Painesville Board of Education saw the need to build a new high school. The vacant land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been attracted their attention. The Village council transferred the property to the school board on December 5th, 1896, and they began the process of transforming "a wasted place into a beautiful site for a new high School building." Since that time the land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been has been part of the high school grounds.

The fact that some of the graves had never been removed has periodically come back to haunt school officials.



The cemetery is located in city of Painesville, Painesville Township, Lake County, Ohio, and is # 6339 (Washington Street Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society, which gives the GPS coordinates of the cemetery as 41° 43' 15"N, 81° 14' 47"W.









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