sentences:  Individuals interred in the Cemetery include Octave Chanute, the father of American aviation; Lucie (Brotherson) Tyng, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; Lydia (Moss) Bradley, founder of Bradley Polytechnic Institute (now Bradley University); former Illinois Governor Thomas Ford (1842–1846); American artist Hedley Waycott; Anastase Robin, a member of Napoleon's Imperial Guard; and others who are prominent in the establishment of Peoria as well as common men and women who made the city their home.Approximately 900 military veterans lie buried on the grounds (including Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead, a U.S. Navy aviator who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception) in both a designated Soldiers' Hill (established in 1862) as well as in private lots.Springdale Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district December 10, 2004.