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Forestdale Cemetery

Forestdale Cemetery is a public secular cemetery located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The cemetery was officially organized on November 1, 1860, after a town meeting in October of that year designated a sum of $1,500 for the purchase of land; contributions for this land came from the Holyoke Water Power Company as well as local mills, with the acquisitions presided over by Jones S. Davis, engineer of Lyman Mills. The cemetery acquisitions were completed and dedicated on June 22, 1862 with speeches by Amherst professor J.G. Voss and one of Holyoke's founding figures, George C. Ewing. The cemetery, built during a time of great interest in landscape architecture, contains a deliberately chosen layout of ornamental trees and shrubs.

Notable burials
Lettie S. Bigelow, poet and author • Roswell P. CraftsWilliam Whiting IICornelius Hicks, painter ==Gallery==
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File:Forestdale holding tomb, Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Massachusetts.jpg|The cemetery's holding tomb, built soon after the American Civil War File:Skinner memorial obverse, Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Massachusetts.jpg|The Skinner family monument File:Farr family headstone, Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Massachusetts.jpg|Farr family headstone File:Whiting tomb, Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Massachusetts.jpg|The Whiting family tomb ==Notes==
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