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Exploring Lakewood Cemetery

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Feb. 23, 2012
Lakewood Cemetery offers over 250 acres of tranquility in the heart of South Minneapolis. You can read the full story here.
Besides the remains of those interred, Lakewood's residents include owls, eagles, foxes and even deer.
Lakewood Cemetry's Memorial Chapel is decorated with more than 10 million individual mosaic tiles.
The ornate Memorial Chapel was built in 1907.
Lakewood Cemetery covers more then 250 square acres in the center of South Minneapolis.
Styles of monuments at Lakewood range from Egyptian revival pyramids to simple granite markers.
Lakewood is the final resting place of Hubert H. Humphrey, John Pillsbury and Paul Wellstone.
Lakewood has been the final destination for thousands of Minnesotans for over a century.
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