15-771: Oakwood Cemetery may refer to any of at least 200 cemeteries named "Oakwood" or "Oak Wood" in the United States, including: Historic Oakwood Cemetery , in Raleigh, North Carolina, also known as "Oakwood Cemetery" Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, Texas) , originally called "City Cemetery" Oakwood Cemetery (Fremont, Ohio) Oakwood Cemetery (Jefferson, Texas) Oakwood Cemetery (Lansing Township, Minnesota) Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama) Oakwood Cemetery (Niagara Falls, New York) Oakwood Cemetery (Parsons, Kansas) Oakwood Cemetery (Red Wing, Minnesota) , listed on
30-462: A girls' school in Warrenton, North Carolina . A prominent lawyer, the younger Moses Mordecai was a member of the 1805 Court of Conference. With his first wife, Margaret, he had two sons, Henry and Jacob, and one daughter, Ellen. He and his second wife, Ann, had a daughter named Margaret after his late wife, Ann's sister. Henry Mordecai became a prosperous planter at Mordecai House and was elected to
45-545: A popular site for weddings. It is located in the Mordecai Place Historic District . The oldest portion of the house was built by Joel Lane for his son, Henry. At one time, the plantation house was the center of a 5,000-acre (20 km ) plantation , one of the largest in Wake County . Lane is considered a founder of Raleigh, as 1,000 acres was sold from his plantation as the site of
60-772: Is a registered historical landmark and museum in Raleigh, North Carolina that is the centerpiece of Mordecai Historic Park, adjacent to the Historic Oakwood neighborhood. It is the oldest residence in Raleigh on its original foundation. In addition to the house, the Park includes the birthplace and childhood home of President Andrew Johnson , the Ellen Mordecai Garden, the Badger-Iredell Law Office, Allen Kitchen and St. Mark's Chapel ,
75-500: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Historic Oakwood Cemetery 35°47′12″N 78°37′30″W / 35.7867070°N 78.6249848°W / 35.7867070; -78.6249848 Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, North Carolina , the state capital of North Carolina , near the North Carolina State Capitol in
90-523: Is now managed by the City of Raleigh's Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department. The Mordecai House is a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark. The Mordecai House is known locally for its paranormal activity and is believed to be the most haunted house in Raleigh. It was featured in a season two episode of Ghost Hunters in which the TAPS team investigated some of those claims. From 2008 to 2016,
105-578: The State House . With the addition of the four new rooms in 1826, the Mordecai house was transformed into a Greek Revival mansion. The Mordecai family, descended from immigrant grandfather Moses Mordecai of Bonn, Germany , became one of the original three hundred Jewish families in the United States and one of the few of Ashkenazic Jewish descent. The family members were prominent in local and state affairs. Jacob Mordecai , Moses' father, founded
120-508: The State Legislature . Fourteen slaves lived on the former plantation and worked in the home and the fields. His daughter, Margaret Mordecai, married and inherited the mansion; her descendants owned and occupied Mordecai House until 1967. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Mordecai family sold off land, which was subdivided for the continuing expansion of Raleigh. In 1867, George Washington Mordecai donated land east of
135-1012: The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Goodhue County Oakwood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York) , listed on the NRHP in Onondaga County Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) , listed on the NRHP in Rensselaer County Oakwood Cemetery (Waco, Texas) Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery , in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California See also [ edit ] Oakland Cemetery (disambiguation) Oak Woods Cemetery , Chicago, Illinois Oakwood Cemetery Chapel (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
150-497: The National Society of Paranormal Investigation and Research (NSPIR) had a contract with the City of Raleigh to be the exclusive paranormal research team for the park. Since 2017, Mordecai Historic Park's exclusive paranormal research team has been The Ghost Guild Inc., a registered nonprofit organization that investigates the house and its surrounding buildings at least three times per year. They present their findings at
165-508: The city to establish a Confederate cemetery; he donated another plot for Wake County's first Hebrew Cemetery. (The adjacent Oakwood Cemetery , chartered in 1869, became the namesake of the large suburb that developed in the adjoining wooded land, which was earlier known as Mordecai Grove. In 1974, Oakwood became the first neighborhood in Raleigh to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places .) Mordecai descendants owned
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#1732772321128180-625: The city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its 102 acres (41 ha), the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and a half acres (1 ha), and the Hebrew Cemetery, both given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867. Mordecai House The Mordecai House (also called the Mordecai Plantation or Mordecai Mansion ), built in 1785,
195-412: The city. The house was named after Moses Mordecai, whose first wife, Margaret Lane, had inherited it from her father Henry. After she died, Mordecai married her sister Ann Lane. In 1824, Mordecai hired William Nichols , State Architect at the time, to enlarge the house. The addition was considered a significant work of Nichols, who had also been responsible for remodeling the original building containing
210-504: The mansion property until 1967, when the house and its surrounding block were put on the market. Local preservationists protested and the city purchased the property, turning it over to the Raleigh Historic Sites Commission to supervise and develop as a historic park. The commission was able to obtain many original Mordecai furnishings, as well as preserve the family papers and library. Mordecai Historic Park
225-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Oakwood Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oakwood_Cemetery&oldid=1204665960 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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