Property Record
CEMETERY ROAD, S SIDE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Silver Lake Cemetery |
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| Other Name: | Silver Lake Cemetery |
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| Reference Number: | 40847 |
| Location (Address): | CEMETERY ROAD, S SIDE |
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| County: | Columbia |
| City: | Portage |
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| Year Built: | 1849 |
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| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | cemetery |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. The cemetery is placed along a ridge and adjacent hillside. The grass and dirt road winds along the landscape in an irregular fashion. The cemetery includes primarily single graves, but also family plots (44/25), some family vaults, the most being that of N. H. Wood (44/23) composed of stone, the vault lies at the foot of the hill adjacent to a tool shed. The earliest noted grave dates to 1949, that of Rueben Landis. Other graves do not cluster in a specific area, and the cemetery is still used. Grave stones include families, willow, praying hands, angel and other patterns (44/24). Primarily coniferous trees are irregularly scattered in small clusters across the cemetery and give a sense of late unknown landscaping (44/25, 27). The cemetery does contain burials of many noted Portage residents. A wrought iron fence runs along the north side of the cemetery adjacent to the road (44/22). The entrance is manned by two ashlar stone pillars with a short rail extending from the side. This structure appears to be quite recent (44/28). Although the most distinctive of the three surveyed cemeteries, this cemeterey does not display sufficiently unusual landscaping or masonry work to achieve National Register significance. Related buildings: one tool shed with asphalt gable roof and balloon frame construction covered with drop siding on a poured concrete foundation (44/22). |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |