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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.
The gravestones of Susan B. Anthony and her sister Mary in Mt. Hope Cemetery are covered in plexiglass to protect them. Each presidential election, scores of people visit the site to add their I ...
The Tecklin family ambled from Frederick Douglass' headstone to Susan B. Anthony's gravesite, crossing the jagged hills through the trees. The family traveled to Rochester from Philadelphia for ...
Susan B. Anthony’s home in Rochester, N.Y., is now an early voting location, honoring the women's rights activist who played a significant role in progressing the suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
The Susan B. Anthony House is located at 17 Madison Street in Rochester. Access to the house is through the Susan B. Anthony Museum entrance at 19 Madison Street. Today the Susan B. Anthony House is a learning center and museum open to the public for tours and programs from 11-5 Tuesday through Sunday, except major holidays.
The area of the cemetery near the meetinghouse has archaeologically been determined to have unmarked graves of Quakers (a common practice of time) dating to the 1760s. Relatives of noted suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who was born in Adams, are buried here. [3]
The Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge (informally called the Freddie-Sue Bridge [1] and known as the Troup–Howell Bridge until July 13, 2007) is a triple steel arch bridge carrying Interstate 490 (I-490) over the Genesee River and New York State Route 383 (NY 383, named Exchange Boulevard) in downtown Rochester, New York.