​Oakwood Cemetery

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Marker No: 3659

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Texas Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places

Geographic: 32.770260, -97.349098

Marker Text: ​Founded 1879 by John Peter Smith, one of Fort Worth's first settlers, who became a civic leader, Mayor, philanthropist. He gave 20 acres to City; cemetery since enlarged to 100. The area contains three cemeteries: Oakwood, Calvary, Trinity. Many Fort Worth and Tarrant County men and women of destiny are buried here.
  Plots are owned by lodges, unions, Catholic, Protestant, Negro, and White. Tracts are dedicated to Union and Confederate soldiers. 
 The Chapel was built in 1914. Oakwood, Calvary Associations, and City provide care. (1966)

Location: Oakwood Cemetery at Grand and Gould Avenues, Fort Worth