Fort Hill Cemetery
| Fort Hill Cemetery | |
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 Gatehouse | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1851 (Chapel built in 1893) |
| Location | 19 Fort St, Auburn, New York |
| Coordinates | 42°55′29″N 76°34′18″W / 42.92472°N 76.57167°W |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Website | www |
Fort Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in
Haudenosaunee.[2]
Notable burials
The cemetery features headstones of such notable people as:[3]
- Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, a pioneering early female classicist, who worked at Vassar College.
- Myles Walter Keogh, civil war Brevet Lt. Colonel; fell at the Battle of the Little Bighornwith Custer.
- Fannie E. McKinney-Hughey, music teacher who developed the Color-Music method to teach music to children.
- Benjamin C. Mead, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
- Warden of Sing Sing
- Frances Adeline Seward, wife of William H. Seward and abolitionist
- Secretary of State
- William H. Seward Jr., banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Harriet Tubman, who is resting on Fort Hill Cemetery's "West Lawn C", beneath a large tree with two small bushes on each side of her headstone
- feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Other
The Bradley Mortuary Chapel (which also serves as the cemetery office and gatehouse) was designed by the architect Julius A. Schweinfurth in a Gothic Revival style and completed in 1893. Julius A. Schweinfurth was a brother and partner to Charles F. Schweinfurth.
Gallery
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Gate -
![The Harriet Tubman Grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[4]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Tubman_grave.jpg/120px-Tubman_grave.jpg)
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Monument to Chief Logan at Fort Hill Cemetery -
Morse bench in Fort Hill Cemetery -
Wadsworth memorial -
Corning memorial -
Angel headstone scene -
Case & Willard memorial
![The Harriet Tubman Grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[4]](/File:Tubman_grave.jpg)
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References
- ^ "Fort Hill Cemetery". www.forthillcemetery.net.
- ^ "Fort Hill Cemetery Logan's Monument". www.forthillcemetery.net.
- ^ "Fort Hill Cemetery Notable People". www.forthillcemetery.net.
- ^ "Historic Properties Relating to Harriet Tubman in Auburn, New York". National Park Service. June 1991.