Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut

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location= Hartford, Wethersfield and Newington, Connecticut
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[http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org Cedar Hill Cemetery] is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. It was designed by Landscape Architect Jacob Weidenmann (1829-1893) who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places [cite web |url= http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ct/Hartford/districts.html|title= CONNECTICUT - Hartford County - Historic Districts |accessdate=2008-04-24 |format= |work=National Register of Historic Places] , Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George W. Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day.

Open from dawn til dusk 365 days a year, Cedar Hill Cemetery welcomes visitors to walk the grounds and partake in the expansive art, history and natural resources this park-like space has to offer.

Notable Monuments

Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the sixteen-foot tall pink-granite pyramid erected in memory of Mark Howard, president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. [http://www.chs.org/library/ead/htm_faids/howam1887.htm]

Another example of an unusual grave is that of Cynthia Talcott, age two, which features her likeness in stone.

John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of red Scottish granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant. [http://www.courant.com/entertainment/attractions/hc-citytrek0706.artjul06,0,6197559.story]

The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Notable Burials

More than 30,000 people have chosen Cedar Hill Cemetery as their final resting place, including many Hartford notables such as:

* Henry Barnard, American Educationalist
* Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Governor of Connecticut
* Thomas Church Brownell, Founder of Trinity College
* William Closson, American Artist
* Samuel Colt, Inventor of the Colt revolver and his wife, Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, Philanthropist
* Katharine Seymour Day, Artist
* Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Founder of the First American School for the Deaf
* Joseph Roswell Hawley, Governor of Connecticut
* Katharine Hepburn, Actress
* Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Women's Rights Activist
* Edwin D. Morgan (1811-1883), United States Senator. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000949 Edwin Denison Morgan] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". Accessed April 25, 2008.]
* John Pierpont Morgan, Financier
* Thomas H. Seymour, Governor of Connecticut
* Virginia Thrall Smith, Children's Advocate
* Griffin Stedman, Civil War General
* Wallace Stevens, Poet
* Robert O. Tyler, Civil War General
* Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln
* Horace Wells, Discoverer of Anesthesia
* Yung Wing, First Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale)

References

External links

* [http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org/ Cedar Hill Cemetery]

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