Oakridge Cemetery
Inspiration for the Oakridge Cemetery of New Zebedee, Michigan
614 Homer Road

Oakridge Cemetery
“New Zebedee’s beautiful old cemetery was on a high hill just out of town. It was full of elaborate gravestones that showed weeping women leaning on urns and Cupids extinguishing torches. There were pillars made to look as if they had been broken and pillars with hands on top, pointing up. Lewis and Tarby picked out a mausoleum stuck into the side of the hill the graveyard was built on.”

“The cemetery stood atop a high, flat-topped ridge that rose just on the other side of Wilder Creek [note: Rice Creek]. You had to walk half a mile beyond the city limits and cross the creek to get to the road that ran up the ridge.”


As featured in:The House With a Clock in Its Walls
The Doom of the Haunted Opera

Bellairs Walk
 
Locations
  1. American Museum of Magic
  2. Brooks Memorial Fountain
  3. Cronin House
  4. Eagle Opera House
  5. Elk's Cigar Store
  6. Grand Army of Republic Hall
  7. Hemmingsen Drug Store
  8. Honolulu House
  9. Lund Memorial Lbrary
  10. Marshall Middle School
  11. Masonic Temple
  12. Michigan Avenue
  13. Oaklawn Hospital
  14. Oakridge Cemetery
  15. Octagon House
  16. St. Mary's Catholic Church
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