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Fir Street Cemetery

Three separate graveyards on eight residential lots

Fir Street Cemetery

Speculators carved the farmland west of Cleveland into house lots, and three Jewish burial societies bought eight of them one at a time. The middle three and a half went to the Hungarian Aid Society, the eastern lots to the Chevra Kadisha Society, the western ones to Anshe Emeth — the city’s oldest orthodox congregation. Three cemeteries that never planned to be neighbours, now reading as one.

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