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Sphinxes, stone trees, Cincinnati icons: Exploring Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove is as much an arboretum, history museum, sculpture garden and park as it is an active cemetery.  Its miles of roads wind past lakes, mausoleums, unusual trees and the graves of people whose names are still scattered across Cincinnati: Kroger, Graeter, Fleischmann, Moerlein, Shillito and Procter and Gamble among them. Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, located at 4521 Spring Grove Ave., comprises 733 acres and is the second largest cemetery, acreage-wise in the…