Near West Side Neighborhood White Oak Cemetery, formerly the old United Presbyterian Cemetery, has been part of our neighborhood since the early 1800's and was considered to be the city cemetery by many in Bloomington during the 1800's. From 1833 until 1869 the site was also home to the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church. According to records, the cemetery was officially established in 1837 but graves are dated as early as 1808. The cemetery gives us a record of community leaders who left their mark with streets and buildings named after them, such as Bryan, Fee, Gourley, Henderson, Woodburn, and Wylie, as well as families who have left only grave markers to remember them by. The Near West Side Neighborhood was densely settled by skilled craftsmen, factory workers, small business owners, clerks, and office workers. They experienced a unique situation of racially integrated living. Some of those people are buried in this neighborhood at White Oak Cemetery, the only trace they left of lives filled with work and family, not unlike our own.