Chamberlain Family Grave, Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
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garmin_geek
N 43° 08.076 W 077° 36.953
18T E 287244 N 4779083
While waymarking in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester I came across my name sake grave stone. A bit creepy but....
Waymark Code: WM6CRR
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 05/14/2009
Views: 7
America's First Municipal Victorian Cemetery
Formed by glaciers, Mount Hope Cemetery's landscape features high hills and deep valleys, winding eskers and deep kettles. Since the cemetery's dedication in 1838, a third of a million people have taken permanent residence in this 198-acre site where you will find stately mausoleums dug deep into hillsides, and myriad examples of Victorian funerary art reaching toward the heavens. Stone and bronze monuments include soaring Egyptian obelisks, miniature Greek temples (one sleeps 20 with a lot of dancing room left over), winged angels of mercy, draped urns and broken columns, Gothic towers, and sculptures of everything from Christian saints to favorite pet dogs. They all gloriously decorate more than 375,000 graves that send a mighty chorus of hope heavenward. In fall and winter, Mount Hope becomes a rookery, and the trees appear fully leafed with crows. In summer, a high 1875 Florentine fountain cascades water from lions' mouths down through three basins held up by cast-iron caryatids.
Type of sign: Other
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Visit Instructions:Any new pictures whould be great. Have fun with your log.
Especially let us know if you share a name with the sign as well. In that case, it would be great if you posted a pic of yourself with the sign!