- City:
- Bloomington, IN
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Cemeteries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
“Rose Hill Cemetery now encompasses 28 acres. Limestone walls along the north and west sides, and ditches throughout, were installed in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. Buried over time, the ditches were discovered and restored in 1993.”
Source notes
https://bloomington.in.gov/media/media/application/pdf/5409.pdfSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 31, 2016.
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Kevin Atkins
Unfortunately those walls were replaced with fake-rock concrete in the early 2000s.
The West and South walls which still exist look like they were also part of the WPA work though.