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Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Rochester, New York, United States.Founded in 1838, it is the burial site of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.Situated on 196 acres (79 ha) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people.
Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. It was designed by architect Charles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by the Bangor Horticultural Society soon after, [2]: 15 the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city.
Mount Hope was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It was the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929.
Cemetery dates back to 1897. More than 26,800 people have been buried at Mount Hope, which was founded in 1897 through Immanuel Evangelical Church, according to the St. Clair County Genealogical ...
In 2020, the cemetery added plexiglass to Anthony and her sister’s gravestones to protect the marble. Dennis Carr, vice president of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery, ...
Mount Hope Cemetery (Chicago), Illinois, burial site of Gustavus Franklin Swift and Lil JoJo; Mount Hope Cemetery (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) Mount Hope Cemetery (Lemay, Missouri), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Louis County, Missouri; Mount Hope Cemetery (Lansing, Michigan) Mount Hope Cemetery (Hill County ...
Mount Hope Cemetery, New York. Rochester's Mount Hope Cemetery opened in part because of a cholera outbreak in 1838 and now has more than 350,000 graves. It is said the land itself was haunted ...
Mount Hope Cemetery opened as the new city cemetery for Lansing, Michigan in June 1874. It was formerly the John Miller Farm. Between 1874 and 1881, the city vacated the Lansing City Cemetery and moved about 1,000 graves to Mount Hope.