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Posted inForest Park History

Creating Forest Home Cemetery

by Jill Wagner November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

After Ferdinand Haase sold some of his land to the founders of Concordia Cemetery in the 1870s, the cemetery business seemed more profitable than a picnic grove for the land now known as Forest Home Cemetery. The land, along the Des Plaines River, had burial mounds from the mound-building cultures of the people who lived […]

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