There are places for our dead.

Places of peace and not dread.

Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones welcome to stones and bones oh oh welcome to Stars and Ghosts.

Whoa.

Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina is another one of these cemeteries that is an outdoor museum.

The level of trees also makes this an armoriedum. Several years ago,

I went on the Wilmington Ghost Walk, and while doing that, I heard a story about a haunted

building with a sad yet heartwarming story about a dog and his owner, and I believe we've

shared this on a previous episode called Haunted Wilmington or something of that nature. The tour guide informed us that there was a special burial in their honor at Oakdale Cemetery,

and I decided that I had to check it out.

What I found was an amazing and unique cemetery.

Slightly outside the town boundaries on the eastern edge,

a plot was selected for a new cemetery that was chartered on December 27,

1852 by the General Assembly of North Carolina, because many of the cemeteries in Wilmington

were becoming overcrowded. This plot measured 65 acres, which has grown to 100 acres today,

and was purchased by the proprietors of the Wilmington Cemetery.

This was the first cemetery in the state of North Carolina to be designed as part of the

Rural Cemetery movement. Since this was founded during the Victorian era, it has a lot of design

elements from the Victorian era that are associated with rural cemeteries the designer was the

surveyor lewis c turner and he laid out sections a through h in the cemetery and as i wandered the

cemetery i found there to be many sections it was planned as kind of a maze of curvilineer avenues winding

through this hilly terrain and when i say her avenues winding through this hilly terrain. And when I say hilly

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