Lake Township Cemeteries

Lake Township was organized in May 1837

Arcola is the main town in rural Lake Township.

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Hadley Lake Township Cemetery

South side of Yellow River Road, 0.5 mile from Bass Road

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Earliest date April 12, 1833. Not in use. Possibly two cemeteries together. One cemetery might have been associated with the Baptist Church across the road. IN DNR Latitude 41.0917 Longitude 85.2458.

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Lake Chapel Cemetery

West side of 8050 Butt Road, behind the church 1.5 miles north of Leesburg Road

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Not in use. Cemetery was vandalized some years ago. It includes a large flat marker with individual plaques of name and dates, replacing the identifiable stones destroyed. The earliest date on this marker is 1816. IN DNR Latitude 41.1547 Longitude 85.3239.

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A June 7, 2019 Facebook post by the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology with the photo on the right, stated During the Rural Cemetery movement, large sites like Crown Hill in Indianapolis or Lindenwood in Fort Wayne had ornate gates and fencing, sometimes made of wrought iron. Smaller cemeteries emulated the movement in various ways, including the use of iron fences (usually around family plots). By the mid-1900s, we started to lose many of these pieces because it made mowing with lawnmowers more difficult. These fences are in the Lake Chapel Cemetery in Allen County, Lake Township.

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Page updated: June 11, 2019