Thursday, February 10, 2000
City, county sprucing up historic cemetery
BY CINDY SCHROEDER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — After years of neglect, a cemetery predating the Civil War is getting some maintenance and repairs.
This week, Kenton County workers began repairing deteriorated crypts in the historic Linden Grove Cemetery, said Chris Warneford, the county's director of public works.
“We're repairing two of the worst crypts that were in bad shape, and were a hazard to the public,” Mr. Warneford said. “They were caving in, and were open to the point of being accessible from the top.”
The repairs are the latest in a series of $50,000 worth of improvements the city of Covington and Kenton County have pledged to make in the 30-acre cemetery at 14th Street and Holman Avenue.
Nearly two years ago, the city and Kenton Fiscal Court formed a board to assume guardianship of Linden Grove Cemetery. The cemetery had been owned by Kenton Cir cuit Court for more than 50 years, because of financial problems dating to the 1800s.
“We have a partnership down there with the two pub lic works directors,” said Tom Steidel, Covington assistant city manager. “Mostly they do a lot of maintenance, things like keeping the grass cut.”
Other improvements include the repair of gravel roads on cemetery grounds, removal of broken tree limbs and trash, and cleaning and repair of the veterans' memorial dais and artillery pieces, as well as more than 350 monuments.
Prisoners from the Kenton County jail also have cleared trash and mowed grass.
Dedicated on Sept. 18, 1843, Linden Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of dozens of Northern Kentucky veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Efforts are being made to put the cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places.
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