Cedar Hill Cemetery
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| Cedar Hill Cemetery | |
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| Location: | Hartford, Wethersfield and Newington, Connecticut |
| Built/Founded: | 1865 |
| Architect: | Weidenmann, Jacob |
| Added to NRHP: | April 28, 1997 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 97000333 [1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
Cedar Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located at 453 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. It was designed by landscaper Jacob Weidenmann (1829-1893), with its first sections completed in 1866.
Cedar Hill was created as a rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts. Its design and monuments reflect the Victorian fascination with death and dying, as well as nature.
The cemetery extends to 2700 acres and includes several buildings and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]
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[edit] Notable Monuments
Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the sixteen-foot tall pink granite pyramid erected to the memory of Mark Howard, president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. [2]
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, who disliked cemeteries. Made of red Scottish granite, the monument was designed to resemble the Ark of the Covenant. [3]
The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
[edit] Notable Burials
It is the burial site of notable Hartford citizens, including:
- 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, movie actress
- Katharine Houghton Hepburn, women's rights activist
- Edwin D. Morgan (1811-1883), United States senator.[2]
- John Pierpont Morgan, financier
- Thomas H. Seymour, governor of Connecticut
- Virginia Thrall Smith, children's advocate
- Griffin Stedman, Civil War General
- Wallace Stevens, poet
- Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln
- Horace Wells, anesthetics pioneer
- Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American University (Yale)
[edit] References
- ^ CONNECTICUT - Hartford County - Historic Districts. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.
- ^ Edwin Denison Morgan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed April 25, 2008.
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