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Evergreen Cemetery was founded in 1905 by the Evergreen Cemetery Association.
It is seven and a half miles from the old City Hall in downtown Detroit and was like it's immediate next door neighbor to the north. Woodlawn Cemetery brought into existence to cater to the many immigrants that had flocked into the city. Salesmen went door-to-door selling cemetery plots.
The cemetery was in the county at the time of its inception, but was easy to get to, because it was on the main North-South Road (i.e., Woodward Ave). In 1905, the cemetery consisted of 50 acres, and, at its zenith in 1910, had over 240 acres and extended south over seven miles into what is today Palmer Park.
The cemetery today is back to its original size of 2,178.000 square feet or about 50 acres. It is ribbon shaped and narrow. The entrance and office is on Woodward Avenue, just south of State Street, it is bordered on the north by Woodlawn Cemetery and on the South by Palmer Woods, in the back it currently extends back to Briarcliff road in the Green Acres neighborhood. There is a map of the current lot system in the cemetery photos on the right to help you find the areas that you are looking for.