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The cemetery is very close to the border with Washington, D.C., but it is in Maryland.
Address:
4111 Pennsylvania Avenue
Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland
20746
NOTE: There is no charge to look up plot information. There is a $45 charge that applies when a customer is looking for a cemetery record; a certificate with their loved ones information.
Before making a photo request, please contact the cemetery to obtain plot location and information.
The cemetery is also known as Forest Lake Cemetery and Nonesuch Plantation Cemetery.
Following a series of land purchases starting in 1890, Forest Lake Cemetery was chartered and opened in 1895, but by 1913 few bodies were buried there.
In 1913, after going bankrupt in the wake of a failed 1908 sale to a developer, 130 acres of the 400-acre Forest Lake Cemetery were sold to form the Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Over time, the cemetery was expanded, and it is now over 150 acres in size. The oldest tombstone reads "Philenia W. Patte, Nov. 19, 1871, 58 years".
From 1936 to 1938, Dionicio Rodriguez, a Mexican builder and artist, built six pieces in concrete at Cedar Hill, most using a faux bois technique to make them resemble wood. He built two footbridges, a bench, a table in a pergola, a hollow "tree trunk", and an Annie Laurie Wishing Chair, also in a pergola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Hill_Cemetery_(Suitland,_Maryland)
Billion Graves