Main entrance on Baxter Avenue

Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum is a 296-acre Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. It is open to the public during daylight hours. Its main entrance is on Baxter, and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x1365, 183 KB) Summary Main entrance to Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x1365, 183 KB) Summary Main entrance to Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... A U.S. National Cemetery is a designation for nationally important cemeteries in the United States. ... An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. ... Louisville redirects here; for other uses, see Louisville (disambiguation). ...

Cave Hill was chartered in 1848 on what was William Johnston's Cave Hill Farm, then a rural property some distance east of Louisville. City officials had actually purchased part of the land in the 1830s in anticipation of building a railroad through it, and a workhouse was built there. The railroad was built elsewhere, and the land was leased to local farmers. Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria...

In 1846, Mayor Frederick Kaye began investigating the possibility of developing a garden-style cemetery on the grounds, a popular concept at the time. Hartford, Connecticut civil engineer Edmund Francis Lee was hired, who planned a cemetery with winding paths, graves across the tops of hills, and lakes and ponds in the valleys. 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Frederick A. Kaye was the fourth and sixth mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. ... Nickname: The Insurance Capital of the World, New Englands Rising Star Official website: www. ...

It currently features more than 500 species of trees and shrubs, and contains monuments and graves of three Union generals as well as the graves of:

• James Graham Brown, builder of the Brown Hotel
• George Rogers Clark (Revolutionary War leader)
• Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. (founder of the Kentucky Derby)
• Patty Smith Hill (composer of "Happy Birthday to You")
• Matthew Harris Jouett (painter)
• George Keats (brother of poet John Keats)
• Alice Hegan Rice (author)
• Harland Sanders ("Colonel Sanders")
• James Speed Lawyer and attorney general under Abraham Lincoln
• James Breckenridge Speed, industrialist and philanthropist
• Henry Watterson

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• John C. Bucklin
• William O. Cowger
• Charles R. Farnsley
• Neville Miller
• William S. Pilcher
• Wilson W. Wyatt

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References

• "The Political Graveyard (Jefferson County, Kentucky)." URL accessed on 2006-05-20.

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See also

• List of attractions and events in Louisville
• List of botanical gardens in the United States

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External links

• Cemetery website
• Map of the Cemetery
• Photos of selected graves with GPS coordinates