Many of the monuments reflect attitudes about death and mourning from the Victorian Era. The cemetery includes impressive monuments by Alexander Stirling Calder and Paul de Vigne. Hotchkiss designed a system of curvilinear driveways winding around the various burial sections. It is located near the midpoint between the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. The site features gently rolling wooded hills that climb to a broad plateau. The property consists of a western slope and the crest of Manitou Ridge. Almerin Hotchkiss also designed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Auburn in Massachusetts (America's first garden-style cemetery). In 1855 Chippiannock's founders purchased 62 acres (25 ha) on Manitou Ridge and secured the services of noted landscape architect Almerin Hotchkiss to design a cemetery patterned in the rural cemetery style of Mt. The first board of directors of the Chippiannock Cemetery Association included Holmes Hakes, S.S. The town's population was 5,000 and the dead were being buried somewhat haphazardly in Bailey Davenport's pasture, which is now Longview Park. Rock Island was in need of a permanent cemetery in 1854. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The word “Chippiannock” is a Native American term which means “place of the dead”.
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