Bibliograph

Detroit's Holy Cross Cemetery, Elaine Walters Raymo

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Detroit's Holy Cross Cemetery, Elaine Walters Raymo

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Detroit's Holy Cross Cemetery

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Elaine Walters Raymo

Summary

In the early hours before dawn on October 6, 1907, a raging fire illuminated the sky as the historic chapel that stood on the cemetery grounds for over half a century reduced to a pile of cinders and ash. Lit by sparks from a nearby barn ablaze from an act of arson, the fire destroyed priceless paintings, relics, statues, and artifacts that held sacrament to the area's earliest settlers. So ended the era of the cemetery's obscure past and launched a new era for the little mission-turned-graveyard nestled southwest of Detroit. Detroit's Holy Cross Cemetery is a collage of persons whose immigrant dreams landed them in an area budding with industry. The cemetery's evolution reflects the waves of immigration, from the early French to the Irish, Germans, Hungarians, Poles, and Hispanics. From its 1838 2-acre roots to its current 65-acre span, Holy Cross Cemetery filled the need for a Catholic cemetery on Detroit's west side

Target audience

adult

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