About one-fourth of the entire area of the cemetery grounds has been laid off in lots on fortyeight different sections, and there are still some lots for sale on nearly all of the sections, besides a large proportion of the grounds not yet laid off. On May 1, 1910, the number of burials in the cemetery was: Soldiers, 1,170; burials on lots, 29,760; burials, 14,117; total, 45,047. During the year ended April 30, 1910, the burials averaged more than five a day. The salaried or paid persons in connection with the cemetery are the superintendent and others actively engaged in current work. There are about seventy men employed during the summer months and about forty during the winter.
Indianapolis News. July 9, 1910
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During the Civil War, old Greenlawn Cemetery filled rapidly with Union and captured Confederate dead. In 1866, federal authorities requested a portion of Crown Hill Cemetery to be set aside for Civil War internments. The government bought 1.4 acres and laid out an arc-shaped lot. Artillery pieces and a circular walk surrounding a flagpole commemorate the fallen soldiers. This portion of the cemetery has been listed separately in the National Register of Historic Places.