Later, William Le Baron Jenney designed a winding road system and Ossian Cole Simonds developed the landscape scheme.

In an effort to maintain a high standard of public health, the association set aside a portion of the land along the northernmost extremity for use as a cemetery.

Samuel F. Miller, a civil engineer for the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway, developed a cemetery plan in 1860.

[2] The Lake Forest City Council issued an ordinance creating a cemetery commission on June 6, 1881.

He completely reworked the cemetery, designing a curving road system and large lots on treeless fields.

Simonds was a friend and former associate of Jenney and was lauded for his work designing Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.