Frankfort Cemetery

Frankfort Cemetery

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caption = Entrance to Frankfort Cemetery
location= Frankfort, Kentucky
locmapin = Kentucky
area =
built =1844
architect= Carmichael, Robert; Launitz, Robert E.
architecture= Romanesque
added = July 12, 1974
governing_body = Private
refnum=74000872cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
The Frankfort Cemetery is located on East Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone and contains the graves of other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors.

History

It was created by Judge Mason Brown, son of statesman John Brown, inspired by a visit to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston.

Brown enlisted other Frankfort civic leaders and in 1844 the Kentucky General Assembly approved the cemetery's incorporation. The 32 acre property, then called "Hunter's Garden", was purchased in 1845 for $3,801. Additional land was purchased in 1858 and in 1911 for a total of convert|100|acre|km2.

Brown hired Scottish-born landscape architect Robert Carmichael to design the cemetery.

Buildings and grounds

The cemetery is designed in a style similar to Mount Auburn, with curving lanes, terraces and a circle of vaults. Carmichael imported flowers from around the state, intending the cemetery to double as an arboretum in a time when residents could not easily travel to see mountain flowers not native to the region. A central feature is the State Mound, featuring a military memorial designed by Robert E. Launitz.

The cemetery has views of the Kentucky River, which forms its western boundary.

Burials

The most famous burial is Daniel Boone. The cemetery contains the graves of seventeen Governors of the Commonwealth, Vice-President Richard M. Johnson, and Kentucky artist Paul Sawyier. It also features the Confederate Monument in Frankfort.


Rebecca Bryan.
Confederate Monument in Frankfort

References

*L.F. Johnson, History of Frankfort Cemetery (Frankfort, Ky., 1921).

External links

* [http://www.therestorationmovement.com/frankfortcem.htm Frankfort Cemetery Map & Photos]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=169757 Find a grave famous burials Frankfort cemetery]
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Kentucky/Franklin/Frankfort/Frankfort_Cemetery/Daniel_Boone_gravesite.html Daniel Boone’s Grave]


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