St. Lawrence Cemetery - Independence, Ohio

In this edition of Cemetery Sundays, I traveled to St. Lawrence Cemetery, a fairly small and modest cemetery located in Independence, Ohio, just south of Cleveland. The modest grounds have been encroached upon on all sides by constant development, but still resist the steady creep of urbanization. When the cemetery was first established back in 1851, the area was still large swaths of farming lands.

I arrived early and made quick work of the grounds, capturing most of the ornate tombstones and markers from the late 1800s...

Upon finishing my brisk morning tour through the cemetery grounds, I decided to go explore the nearby creek. Mere steps into the small wooded area surrounding the deep creekbed, I stumbled upon an amazing old, decrepit bridge. Most of the wood planks had long since rotted away and the original iron frames were fighting off decades of advanced rust and decay. Literally thousands of people work in the nearby surrounding office buildings, yet certainly none of them know of the existence of this old structure, hidden right in front of them...