 Its landscape was originally designed by Robert C. Woods (surveyor and son of Robert T. Woods), with individual plots laid out according to the landscape's contours.The cemetery became popular in the Victorian era for its views, as well as the preferred place of interment for a number of prominent citizens of Wheeling and surrounding Ohio County.The prime hilltop Section A contains obelisks commemorating Alfred Caldwell, Edward M. Norton, William P. Wilson, and the Luke family.