Founded in 1841, Woodland is one of the nation's oldest rural garden cemeteries, a dramatic departure from the traditional church burial grounds of its time. Its oldest portion, including Victorian Era burial sections, a Romanesque gateway, and a Tiffany chapel, forms a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The arboretum, with over 3,000 trees on more than 200 acres, completes this outdoor museum of Dayton history. Those buried here include founder John Van Cleve, the Wright Brothers, inventors John Patterson and Charles Kettering, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Col. Edward Deeds, Governor James M. Cox, and humorist Erma Bombeck.