Dublin Core
Title
Prairie Home Cemetery Plat Map & Transit
Subject
Civic & Government
Description
The transit is a high-precision instrument used by surveyors for laying out straight and curved lines on the ground. Although unnoticed by the public, the streets are mathematically laid out around reverse and compound curves with the use of the vernier transit. The full cemetery layout is seen in the plat map hanging behind.
Prairie Home Cemetery is one of the oldest continuously operated sites in the city - founded in 1849. The cemetery is accessible from both South Prairie and South West Avenues. The cemetery office, along with an attached chapel which seats 86, was built in 1937 and remains its only base of operations. The cemetery’s main source of revenue is from the sale of graves, crypts and niches. Other income is derived from programs such as flowerbeds, endowments, and investments.
Lots were free to local citizens until 1915, but there was a $2 fee for digging the graves. It was estimated that by the year 2000 there were over 20,000 individuals buried on the site.
Loan from: Prairie Home Cemetery
Prairie Home Cemetery is one of the oldest continuously operated sites in the city - founded in 1849. The cemetery is accessible from both South Prairie and South West Avenues. The cemetery office, along with an attached chapel which seats 86, was built in 1937 and remains its only base of operations. The cemetery’s main source of revenue is from the sale of graves, crypts and niches. Other income is derived from programs such as flowerbeds, endowments, and investments.
Lots were free to local citizens until 1915, but there was a $2 fee for digging the graves. It was estimated that by the year 2000 there were over 20,000 individuals buried on the site.
Loan from: Prairie Home Cemetery
Publisher
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
Rights
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum