Fort Hill Cemetery
{{short description|Founded in 1851 in Auburn, New York}}
{{Infobox cemetery
| name = Fort Hill Cemetery
| image = Fort Hill Cemetery Gatehouse.JPG
| caption = Gatehouse
| coordinates = {{coord|42|55|29|N|76|34|18|W|region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| map_type = USA New York#USA
| location = 19 Fort St, Auburn, New York
| established = 1851 (Chapel built in 1893)
| style = Gothic Revival
| website = {{Official URL|http://www.forthillcemetery.net/}}
| type =
| graves =
}}
Fort Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Auburn, New York, United States. It was incorporated on May 15, 1851, under its official name: "Trustees of the Fort Hill Cemetery Association of Auburn". It is known for its headstones of notable people such as former Secretary of State William H. Seward, his son, William H. Seward Jr. and abolitionist and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. It is built on what was once a fortified village of the Cayuga Nation.{{cite web |title=Fort Hill Cemetery |url=http://www.forthillcemetery.net/index.html |website=www.forthillcemetery.net}} The cemetery features a {{convert|56|ft|m|abbr=on}}. high limestone obelisk monument to Chief Logan, famed chief of the Haudenosaunee.{{cite web |title=Fort Hill Cemetery Logan's Monument |url=http://www.forthillcemetery.net/logan.html |website=www.forthillcemetery.net}}
Notable burials
The cemetery features headstones of such notable people as:{{cite web |title=Fort Hill Cemetery Notable People |url=http://www.forthillcemetery.net/notable.html |website=www.forthillcemetery.net}}
- Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, a pioneering early female classicist, who worked at Vassar College.
- Myles Walter Keogh, civil war Brevet Lt. Colonel; fell at the Battle of the Little Bighorn with Custer.
- Fannie E. McKinney-Hughey, music teacher who developed the Color-Music method to teach music to children.
- Benjamin C. Mead, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
- Thomas Mott Osborne, Warden of Sing Sing
- Sereno E. Payne (1843–1914), U.S. Representative and House Majority Leader{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000153 |title=Payne, Sereno Elisha |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2024-07-24}}
- Frances Adeline Seward, wife of William H. Seward and abolitionist
- William H. Seward, New York Governor, Senator and U.S. Secretary of State
- William H. Seward Jr., banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Harriet Tubman, who is resting on Fort Hill Cemetery's "West Lawn C", beneath a large tree with two small bushes on each side of her headstone
- Martha Coffin Wright, feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments.
=Other=
The Bradley Mortuary Chapel (which also serves as the cemetery office and gatehouse) was designed by the architect Julius A. Schweinfurth in a Gothic Revival style and completed in 1893. Julius A. Schweinfurth was a brother and partner to Charles F. Schweinfurth.
Gallery
File:Fort Hill Cemetery gate.jpg|Gate
File:Tubman grave.jpg|The Harriet Tubman Grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places{{cite web | title = Historic Properties Relating to Harriet Tubman in Auburn, New York | publisher = National Park Service | date = June 1991 | url = {{NRHP url|id=64500451}}}}
File:Monument to Chief Logan, taken at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY (28 April 2013) 2013-04-30 10-50.jpg|Monument to Chief Logan at Fort Hill Cemetery
File:Cemetery Bench.JPG|Morse bench in Fort Hill Cemetery
File:Wadsworth family headstone.JPG | Wadsworth memorial
File:Corning family's statue in Fort Hill Cemetery.JPG | Corning memorial
File:Angel headstone scene.JPG | Angel headstone scene
File:Case & Willard statue.JPG | Case & Willard memorial
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.forthillcemetery.net/}}
Category:Buildings and structures in Auburn, New York