Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester

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Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal Victorian cemetery. Situated on 196 acres (793,000 m²) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people.

[edit] Notable burials

• Susan B. Anthony
• John Jacob Bausch
• Frederick Douglass
• Frank E. Gannett
• Henry Lomb
• Lewis Henry Morgan
• Nathaniel Rochester
• George B. Selden

[edit] External links

• The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Vintage Views of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Contemporary Views of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Interactive map of Mt. Hope Cemetery, showing Civil War graves
• Speaking Stones Paper Series by University of Rochester students