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I was very happy to see that the city installed street signs a few weeks ago in Onalaska City Cemetery. Street signage will no doubt help visitors find the graves of friends and loved ones. Named streets also help to firmly establish the historic nature of the cemetery and the sense of place found there.
Signed streets now include: First Avenue, Second Avenue, Corinthian Street and Athens Street. Other main streets or roadways were not named, however. These include: North, Grecian, Ionian and Olympia streets. I am hopeful that in the near future, funding can be found to place signage on these streets as well.
The cemetery street signs are lettered in white on a blue background. Planned or not, this is especially meaningful to me because those colors remind me of the modern-day Greek flag. Most of the main street names in the cemetery are associated with Greece and more specifically, with the classical age of Greece. My guess is that both classical revival and perhaps neoclassical architecture had some influence on the naming of Onalaska’s cemetery streets.
I believe that street signage in the cemetery honors the driving spirit of the women of the old cemetery association as well as that of past cemetery sextons.
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