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The cemetery is bound by East 8th street, Graham Street, and Main Street, exclusive of Saint Anthony Cemetery which occupies the corner south of the intersection of E. 8th Street and Main Street. The entrance to this cemetery is off the northeast side of Graham Street. There is no physical boundary between Eastern Cemetery and Saint Anthony Cemetery, which has its entrances off E. 8th Street.
The cemetery was opened in 1849 and was originally known as the Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Eastern Cemetery with an alternate name of Chestnut Grove Cemetery, located in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana.
The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-10-55 (Eastern / Chestnut Grove).
The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Eastern Cemetery / Chestnut Grove Cemetery is 019-305-58006 with the dataset compiled in 2011.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 433944 (Eastern Cemetery).
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