Fort Meigs Union Cemetery

Fort Meigs Union Cemetery (HM19ZG)

Location: Perrysburg, OH 43551 Wood County
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Country: United States of America
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N 41° 33.083', W 83° 38.5'

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Front Side

The village of Perrysburg was founded in 1816 and Wood County in 1820. In 1822 the town established a village cemetery and located it on the southwest corner of West Indiana at Cherry Streets. By 1848 it was full and a new one was created on West Boundary and Indiana Avenue. The first burial was that of William Cassady in 1849. The cholera epidemic of 1854 that caused over one hundred deaths, overloaded the small cemetery workforce.

Potters Field was designed in 1868 on the NW corner of Block Two. In 1877 Perrysburg Township bought adjacent land in sections K and L and joined forces to create Fort Meigs Union Cemetery. There are nine underground vaults in the side of the terrace by the old Ewing Creek stream bed adjacent to the 1912 mausoleum.

Back Side

An exposed section of old Ewing Creek bisects the older portion of the cemetery In Block M, running southerly from the streambed valley, British howitzer emplacement ruts from the two sieges against Fort Meigs in the War of 1812 are still visible and were donated to the Ohio Historical Society by the lot owners.

Block One was designated as a Civil War Memorial to the hundreds of local men who died in that conflict. There are military men and women buried here who served in all ten conflicts where the United States was involved.

A Cremation Garden is located on the far west side of the oldest part of the cemetery. South of the cemetery, across Indiana Avenue, is the newer portion expanded in 1979 and features a large pond fronted by the Police and Fire Memorial.

Details

HM Number	HM19ZG
Series	This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
Marker Number	21-87
Year Placed	2011
Placed By	Erected by Historic Perrysburg, Inc 2011-The Ohio HIstorical Society
Marker Condition	No reports yet
Date Added	Friday, October 17th, 2014 at 10:45pm PDT -07:00

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UTM (WGS84 Datum)	17T E 279684 N 4603338
Decimal Degrees	41.55138333, -83.64166667
Degrees and Decimal Minutes	N 41° 33.083', W 83° 38.5'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds	41° 33' 4.98" N, 83° 38' 30.00" W
Driving Directions	Google Maps
Area Code(s)	419, 567
Closest Postal Address	At or near 622-698 W Indiana Ave, Perrysburg OH 43551, US
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