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              Name: Red Wing Oakwood Cemetery Walking Tour
              Date: May 19, 2012
              Time: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM CDT
              Event Description:
              Join the Red Wing Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) and the Goodhue County Historical Society in celebrating Oakwood Cemetery’s inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places on Saturday, May 19. A tour of the oldest part of Oakwood Cemetery will be offered at 10 AM.  Learn about the cemetery’s establishment, some of the early residents who were laid to rest there, the meaning of gravestone symbolism, and funeral practices in the Victorian Era.  The tour fee is $5.00.  Call the Goodhue County Historical Society at (651) 388-6024 for reservations.  The Red Wing HPC will be hosting an open house of the chapel from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM and a cemetery history presentation by Daniel Hosington at 12:00 PM.  For more information about the tour, visit their website  http://www.goodhuehistory.mus.mn.us/under events and on their Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Goodhue-County-Historical-Society/183297981708781under events.  
              Location:
              Red Wing Oakwood Cemetery
              Date/Time Information:
              May 19
              Tour - 10 AM
              Open House at Chapel - 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
              Fees/Admission:
              The tour fee is $5.00. 
              Call the Goodhue County Historical Society at (651) 388-6024 for reservations.  
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