OLD TOWN GRAVEYARD

Old Town Graveyard is located between two beautiful Victorian churches and is part of the Historic District of the City of Medina.

It has, however, no connection to either the Congregational Church to the west or the Episcopal Church to the east, as it predates both by approximately seventy years. Many of Medina's early settlers are buried here.

As an old-fashioned burial ground, Old Town Graveyard was once regarded as dreary and lacking elegance when Spring Grove Cemetery opened just five blocks to the east in 1883. Many families chose to relocate the remains of their loved ones from Old Town to the more spacious, park-like environment of Spring Grove, which offered larger family plots.

The first burials at Old Town Graveyard occurred in 1810, while the last took place in 1946. The cemetery is the final resting place for veterans from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and both World Wars I and II. The land for the burial ground was donated to the village of Medina by Henry M. and Sarah Boardman in 1836.