The Columbus City Graveyards
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Content © 1985 by Donald M. Schlegel

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North Graveyard Arrangement

A repetition of a series of two, twenty-foot lots separated by 7 1/2-foot paths ends at the southern edge of the Kerr tract, an exact fit which would have been sought when the lots were laid out. Likewise, repetition of the entire pattern brings the survey exactly to the northern end of the property.

A similar analysis of the east/west locations of the grave markers helps to establish, though not as conclusively, the pattern of lot locations from east to west, with roadways and paths as shown on the diagram. These locations are also supported by the fact that the lots at the north end and adjacent to the Kerr tract would exactly align with the boundaries of lots 15, 16, and 17 of the Brickell Addition.

The only firm clue to lot numbers is given in the Daily Dispatch of April 26, 1872, which implies that lots 139 and 171 were in the southern one hundred foot strip. The papers also name in this strip the Cool lot and the Cooper lot, which from deed records may have been numbers 180 and 166, respectively. Lots 525, 529, and 532 [assumed to be the correct reading of what is recorded at the courthouse as 352], which were sold in 1849 and 1851 for eight dollars each, must have been laid out in roadways after August, 1848. Since these numbers represent the last lots laid out, and since no letter-designated lots are named in any deeds, it seems likely that the lots set aside for single graves numbered roughly one hundred and were designated by letters.

If the lots in the triangular-shaped areas on the High street side of the Graveyard were the single-grave lots; and if three roadway lots are included in each of the north-south roadways in the south 100-foot strip; and if the single-grave portion of this strip were counted as just one lot; and not counting the western tier of lots which was lost to Lincoln Goodale's claim, then the plan would have exactly 100 lots in the strip, as mentioned by the newspaper at the time of the condemnation.


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