Image:Cave_hill.jpg '''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 daily to the public from 8:00 AM to 4:45 PM (weather permitting). Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. ==History== 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. In 1846, Mayor Frederick_A._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. The Cave Hill Cemetery Co. was chartered in February 1848, and the cemetery was dedicated on July_25 1848. Image:Smyser_Memorial.jpg After administrators sold several acres of land for the burial of Union soldiers during the Civil War, local Confederate supporters purchased nearby land as well. The grounds were expanded and remapped in 1888 to their modern size of nearly 300 acres. The signature Baxter Avenue entrance was completed in 1892. The Corinthian-style building includes a 2,000 pound bell in its clock tower. The Grinstead Drive entrance was opened in 1913. Originally Beechurst Sanitarium was located near this entrance, but it was torn down in the 1930s. The middle fork of Beargrass_Creek runs through Cave Hill, and a fork of it roughly divides the cemetery in new (eastern) and old (western) sections. There are also two large man-made lakes. The cemetery currently features more than 500 species of trees and shrubs, and contains monuments and graves of three Union generals. ==Interments== *J._Graham_Brown, builder of the Brown_Hotel *George_Rogers_Clark (Revolutionary War leader), Section P, lot 245 *Meriwether_Lewis_Clark,_Jr. (founder of the Kentucky_Derby) Section A, lot 699 *Patty_Smith_Hill (composer of "Happy_Birthday_to_You") Section G, lot 96 *Matthew_Harris_Jouett (painter) reinterred in 1893 to Section c, lot 30 *George_Keats (brother of poet John_Keats) reinterred 1879, Section O lot 73 *Alice_Hegan_Rice (author) Section Q, lot 107 *Harland_Sanders ("Colonel_Sanders") Section 33, lot 57 *James_Speed Lawyer and attorney general under Abraham_Lincoln, Section P, lot 681 *James_Breckenridge_Speed, industrialist and philanthropist *Henry_Watterson (and his father Harvey_Magee_Watterson) *Enid_Yandell (sculptor), Section O, Lot 396 *Mia_Zapata, lead singer of the underground, punk-blues band, The_Gits '''Politicians''' *James_Guthrie, 19th century US Senator and Secretary_of_the_Treasury *John_McKinley, Former senator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court *James_Biddle_Eustis, Louisiana Senator *Frederic_Mosley_Sackett, Senator and Ambassador to Germany *David Meriwether, Senator, Governor of New Mexico *Thruston_Ballard_Morton, Served in both houses of Congress *Augustus_E._Willson, Governor of Kentucky '''Louisville Mayors''' *Andrew_Broaddus *John_C._Bucklin reinterred in 1856 to Section M, lot 346 *William_O._Cowger *John_M._Delph *Charles_R._Farnsley *Bruce_Hoblitzell *Neville_Miller *William_S._Pilcher *Wilson_W._Wyatt '''Confederate soldiers''' *Over 200 confederate soldies are buried in Section O. The original wooden grave markers have since been replaced by stone ones. There were about 118,000 people interred by 1998. ==Documents== Image:CaveHill1.jpg Image:CaveHill2.jpg Image:CaveHill3.jpg ==References== *Thomas, Samuel W., ''Cave Hill Cemerery: A Pictorial Guide and Its History'', Cave Hill Cemetery Company, Louisville, Kentucky 1985 *{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF5.html|title=The Political Graveyard (Jefferson County, Kentucky)|accessdate=2006-05-20}} ==See also== *History_of_Louisville,_Kentucky *List_of_attractions_and_events_in_Louisville *List_of_botanical_gardens_in_the_United_States *Louisville_in_the_Civil_War ==External links== *Cemetery website *Map of the Cemetery *Photos of selected graves with GPS coordinates {{Kentucky-geo-stub}} {{Louisville-stub}} Category:Arboreta Category:Botanical_gardens_in_Kentucky Category:Cemeteries_in_Kentucky Category:History_of_Louisville Category:Kentucky_in_the_Civil_War Category:Registered_Historic_Places_in_Kentucky Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Louisville