Taking a Look at the Greenwood Cemetery

by Tom Dilley

Tom Tom Dilley’s cemetery tours are among the most popular programs from the Grand Rapids Historical Society each year. This year we’re heading to the northwest side of town to the Greenwood Cemetery.

photo from Oak Hill Cemetery

The 20 acres making up the Greenwood Cemetery were deeded to the city of Grand Rapids by Daniel and Sophronia Bush on February 8, 1859. Like the Oakhill Cemetery tours of past years, Dilley’s tours will tell the stories of important and interesting players in Grand Rapids history and explain the elaborate art and architecture of the monuments to those people.

photo from Oak Hill Cemetery

The tours will take place on Saturday, September 7 and will repeat on Sunday, September 8. Mr. Dilley will use a microphone again this year.

“Taking a Look at the Greenwood Cemetery” presented by Thomas R. Dilley, GRHS Board Trustee, September 7 and 8, 201310 a.m. both days Greenwood Cemetery, 1401 Leonard St NW - near Leonard and Walker

In case of severe weather, cancellation will be announced on Grand Rapids Historical Society’s Facebook page.