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1. GLEN_131006_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2013_DC_Glenwood DC -- Glenwood Cemetery (62 photos from 2013)
  Interestingly, they give you price samples. This one is $4795.00
2. GLEN_131006_004.JPG: This one is $4295.00
3. GLEN_131006_009.JPG: This one is $2095.00, etching $400.00
4. GLEN_131006_012.JPG: This one is $5490.00
5. GLEN_131006_015.JPG: This one is $1350.00
6. GLEN_131006_016.JPG: This one is $1495.00
7. GLEN_131006_031.JPG: This one is $3295.00
8. GLEN_131006_034.JPG: This one is $1403.25 with etching
9. GLEN_131006_038.JPG: This one is $2750.00
10. GLEN_131006_040.JPG: This one is $903.38, pictures as $350.00+
11. GLEN_131006_043.JPG: This one is $693.75
12. GLEN_131006_147.JPG: The obelisk, sculpted by Washington artist Charles Rousseau, depicts scenes from the Shreeve's Stable fire, where Firefighter Benjamin Grenup of Columbia Engine No. 1 died in the line of duty in 1858. He was the first DC firefighter to die in the line of duty, crushed underneath the pump cart.
13. GLEN_131006_176.JPG: These pieces were commissioned by the cemetery. "The Chainsaw Artist" Dayton Scroggins did these based on ideas from Revelations. They were done in 2008.
14. GLEN_131006_219.JPG: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. -- Eph. 6:12 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. ... And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. -- Rev: 20:1-3,7
15. GLEN_060107_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2006_DC_Glenwood DC -- Glenwood Cemetery (14 photos from 2006)
16. GLEN_060107_19.JPG: Benjamin Grenup, the first DC fireman to die in the line of duty. He was crushed by a firetruck as the illustration on one side of the monument shows you.
17. GLEN_060107_50.JPG: I've got to presume this is a descendant of Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general, but I could be wrong.
18. GLEN_060107_64.JPG: Constantino Brumidi (1805-1880), an Italian refugee, was the fresco decorator of the interior of the United States Capitol.
19. GLEN_060107_74.JPG: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (LOIT suh) was born in Germany. He studied art in Philadelphia, and in 1859 he moved to New York to live. He became famous for his paintings of American historical scenes. He painted the 12 foot high by 21 foot long "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting. From http://www.americanrevolution.org/delxone.html With the possible exceptions of DaVincis' Mona Lisa and Last Supper, this is perhaps the most universally recognized image in the entire history of art. It is also an image that historians love to hate. Painted in Dusseldorf, Germany around 1851, the artist had lived in America as a boy, and after going back to Germany, had returned to America many times (years later he would emigrate here). While here, he visited the Smithsonian and examined Washington's uniform and sword, and carefully studied paintings and sculpture of the Great General which were done in Washington's lifetime. Yet, despite this intensive research into historical accuracies, Leutze then let his artistic license run wild. Perhaps that is why this painting is usually classified in the "Romantic" school of art. The actual crossing was done in the dead of night, during a driving snowstorm, and was completed by three a. m. Leutze indulged in symbolism showing Washington leading his men out of a stormy darkness into a new dawn of freedom. Indeed, although you can't make it out in our electronic image, in the original, in the sky directly above the foremost oarsman, Leutze painted in the morning star, invoking the legend of the wise ones following the star at Christmas. Two future Presidents of the United States crossed the river that fateful night, James Madison and James Monroe. Also along with the army were a future Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Marshall, and famous rivals Aarron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Besides Washington, only two of the figures in the boat have been identified. Look closely at the fellow holding the flag, and you'll see James Monroe. He was quartered in the house where Washington made the decision to cross, and served as a scout and trusted adviser to the General, but there's nothing in the historical records to indicate he crossed in the same boat. Note the so-called "Betsy Ross" flag, with the stars in a circle. This design first came into existence some six months after the crossing. The other recognizable figure, pulling on an oar at Washington's knee, is Prince Whipple, a black patriot who has become a minor legend of the Revolution. As an early biographer said of him: "Prince Whipple was born in Amabou, Africa, of comparatively wealthy parents. When about ten years of age, he was sent by them, in company with a cousin, to America to be educated. An elder brother had returned four years before, and his parents were anxious that their child should receive the same benefits. The captain who brought the two boys over proved a treacherous villain, and carried them to Baltimore, where he exposed them for sale, and they were both purchased by Portsmouth men, Prince falling to Gen. Whipple. He was emancipated during the [Revolutionary] war, was much esteemed, and was once entrusted by the General with a large sum of money to carry from Salem to Portsmouth. He was attacked on the road, near Newburyport, by two ruffians; one was struck with a loaded whip, the other he shot...Prince was beloved by all who knew him. He was the "Caleb Quotom" of Portsmouth. where he died at the age of thirty-two leaving a widow and children." But, while many black soldiers served in Glovers Marblehead Regiment, the unit that ferried the army across the river, Prince Whipple wasn't one of them. In fact, in December of 1776 he was in Baltimore. Of course, few of the soldiers who crossed the river that horrible night to fight what was to be one of the few battles that can be said to have changed the course of the history of the entire world were as fortunate as Monroe or Madison. Major James Wilkinson, who was on his way to join Washington, found his route easy to follow: "There was a little snow on the ground, which was tinged here and there with blood from the feet of the men who wore broken shoes." Primary documents differ about Patriot casualties, but even the most pessimistic reflect that the only American dead after the battle were two soldiers who froze to death.
20. GLEN_990215_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 1999_DC_Glenwood DC -- Glenwood Cemetery (25 photos from 1999)
21. GLEN_970807_10.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 1997_DC_Glenwood DC -- Glenwood Cemetery (26 photos from 1997)
22. GLEN_970807_18.JPG: Blundon (Dog). This one's kind of unusual as it memorializes the family dog.
23. GLEN_970807_21.JPG: Teresa Vasco (Rocking Chair). This unusual memorial is for Teresa Vasco, who died by burning at age two.
24. GLEN_970807_23.JPG: Benj Grenup (Fireman). This is a memorial to the first DC fireman -- Benjamin C Grenup -- to die in the line of duty. Note the upside-down fire hydrants on the corners.
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Wikipedia Description: Glenwood Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
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Glenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 2219 Lincoln Road NE in Washington, D.C. It is a private, secular cemetery owned and operated by The Glenwood Cemetery, Inc. Many famous people are buried in Glenwood Cemetery, and the cemetery is noted for its numerous elaborate Victorian and Art Nouveau funerary monuments. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017; its mortuary chapel was separately listed in 1989.

Establishment of the cemetery

On June 5, 1852, the Council of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia passed a local ordinance that barred the creation of new cemeteries anywhere within Georgetown or the area bounded by Boundary Street (northwest and northeast), 15th Street (east), East Capitol Street, the Anacostia River, the Potomac River, and Rock Creek. A number of new cemeteries were therefore established in the "rural" areas in and around Washington: Columbian Harmony Cemetery in D.C.; Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland; Mount Olivet Cemetery in D.C.; and Woodlawn Cemetery in D.C.

The property which became Glenwood Cemetery was first owned by John Dixon, and original patentee of the District of Columbia. In 1809, Dixon sold the land to Dr. Phineas Bradley. Bradley renamed it Clover Hill, and built a large home in the northeast corner of the land. Bradley entertained some of the city's most notable residents, including Senator Henry Clay. Bradley sold the property in 1845, and it changed hands many times over the next nine years. By 1854, it was owned by Junius J. Boyle.

In June 1852, Joseph B. Close, William S. Humphreys, Randolph S. Evans, and George Clendenin purchased the 90-acre (360,000 m2) Clover Hill from Junius J. Boyle for $9,000 for the purpose of creating a secular cemetery. Humphreys put a high fence around 30 acres (120,000 m2) of the site and laid out walks and roads. Clendenin was a ...More...
Atlas Obscura Description: Glenwood Cemetery's Chainsaw Sculptures
Washington, D.C.
The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

Glenwood Cemetery is a historic Washington D.C. cemetery some know for its opulent Victorian monuments and infamous residents: It is the resting place of George Atzerodt, a co-conspirator for Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and the murderer Frederic De Frouville. But amid the graves of its notorious and lesser-known inhabitants, some larger-than-life chainsaw art rises from the ground.
Many of the trees within Glenwood are over 200 years old. When high winds caused some of the old-growth trees to topple, the cemetery contacted a professional chainsaw artist to turn the wooden remnants into works of art, and give new life to the longtime living residents of a place so heavily associated with death. The artist, Dayton Scoggins, used four oak trees to create the unique wooden sculptures. The largest of them stretches to 30 feet tall.
The wooden carvings found in Glenwood include creatures not commonly found in your average cemetery, like a dragon and a saber tooth tiger surrounded by woodland creatures. Two of the sculptures depict angels, which are are admittedly a more conventional fit for their surroundings. Supposedly, the artist drew inspiration from passages in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.

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The statues are located behind the cemetery’s Romanesque Revival mortuary chapel.

The above was from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glenwood-cemeterys-chainsaw-sculptures
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