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Chartered by the General Assembly of Kentucky on February 5,1848 for the purpose of operating a rural cemetery. Cave Hill was dedicated in July of that year and the transition of Cave Hill Farm into a beautiful and historic cemetery began. |
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Cave Hill Heritage Foundation |
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Restoration • Preservation • Educational
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As an integral part of the Louisville community, Cave Hill Cemetery is more than a sacred resting place. For this reason, the Cave Hill Heritage Foundation has been developed as a vehicle for the long-term preservation needs of Cave Hill Cemetery. We provide multiple avenues for your participation in the foundation, and hope that you will take the time to learn about our mission, projects, and membership opportunities. |
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Cave Hill Heritage Foundation
The Foundation serves three distinct purposes
3. To promote community education and awareness
The history of Cave Hill Cemetery is inextricably tied to the history of Louisville. Through its landscape and monuments, the cemetery tells the story of this beloved city by the river and its remarkable citizenry. The Cave Hill Heritage Foundation will help provide resources to produce educational materials, expand public awareness and develop special events and programs for school children and the community at large. It will also ensure that the critical task of recording and archiving the history of the cemetery continues.
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George Rogers Clark. General Clark was a surveyor and Indian fighter, who devised and led an expedition to the Illinois country in 1778. On the way, he trained his men on an island at the Falls of the Ohio. The families which came with him were the first settlers of Louisville. He would continue as a military leader in the West during the Revolution. He negotiated Indian treaties, and was a naturalist, a friend and correspondent with Thomas Jefferson, and the older brother and mentor of William Clark, who first met Meriwether Lewis near his home at the Falls. Like many of his comrades and contemporaries, “the Washington of the West” was buried in a family graveyard marked only by a willow which ultimately died, too.
The home of his sister Lucy Clark Croghan subsequently was leased and the graveyard behind the once popular and populated Locust Grove became overgrown. The Commonwealth resolved to reinter one of its “founders of her prosperity” in 1856 on the military mound in the Frankfort Cemetery. The governor was again authorized to perform the same task in 1869, but some of Clark’s descendants objected and opted for his nephew’s lot in a prominent part of Cave Hill Cemetery in Section P. Reinterment was on 29 October 1869.
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