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Oakwood Resthaven is a really pretty cemetery
located in the heart of Niagara Falls NY. This is a cemetery with a castle
like crematorium, chapel and of course a house on the property for the
caretaker. Their is 30 unknowns buried here and a soldiers plot with many
stone crosses. The huge oak trees cover the grounds and at first our group
thought this cemetery was small but once you enter past the big iron and
stone gates their really is alot to explore. The cemetery was incorporated
in 1852 and the veteran soldier plot was established in 1917. Although
their seems to be some burials before 1852 based on our finds. The
cemetery is very mixed some statues, some monuments, some flat stones, a
crypt and even a couple angels. I felt so safe here like I wanted to spend
the night and sleep under one of the big oak trees just day dreaming of
happy things like flying in the sky like a bird or sitting in a tree
eating an apple. This cemetery gave me nothing but positive energies as I
walked through it. What makes this cemetery special is that many of the
abandoned cemeteries in Niagara county have moved their graves to here
such as Fort Schlosser, Osborn, Old Burying Ground, etc. Also their is
pauper graves of Annie Taylor who was the first person to go over Niagara
Falls in a barrel 1901, Captain Webb & Carlisle Graham.
© By Rick-AngelOfThyNight
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