Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal Victorian cemetery. Situated on 196 acres (793,000 m²) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people. There is also a Rochester in Ulster County, New York; for that town see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 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 marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies are buried. ... The University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution located in Rochester, New York. ...

Notable burials

• Susan B. Anthony
• John Jacob Bausch
• Frederick Douglass
• Frank E. Gannett
• Henry Lomb
• Lewis Henry Morgan
• Nathaniel Rochester
• George B. Selden

Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28 Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent, and well-educated American civil rights leader and abolitionist, who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure womens suffrage in the United States. ... John Jacob Bausch was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, on 25th July, 1830. ... Frederick Douglass, ca. ... Frank Ernest Gannett (September 15, 1876 – December 3, 1957) founded the Gannett corporation. ... Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was an American lawyer and amateur scholar best known for his work on cultural evolution and Native Americans. ... Col. ... George B. Selden, born September 14, 1846 in Clarkson, New York, died January 17, 1922 in Rochester, New York, was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile, which he invented in 1877. ...

External links

• The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Vintage Views of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Contemporary Views of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Speaking Stones Paper Series by University of Rochester students