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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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Monument Gallery |
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| Twist Statue |
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| Bronze statue of Saundra Curry Twist (1941-1981) professional fashion model and cheerleader, who died in an automobile accident. Section 38, lot 147. |
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| Irvin Mausoleum |
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| Irvin mausoleum in Section P, lot D. |
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| Peaslee Monument |
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| Charles Rowland Peaslee (d. 1905) started merchandising paints, oils, glass, and lamps with George Gaulbert in 1867. The sphinx is an extraordinary being composed of various human and animal features, the ultimate embodiment of enigma. Muldoons sphinx is a copy of the monument erected in 1850 in Sprig Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, in memory of Matthew and Ann Lawler of Philadelphia, where Lawler had been mayor. Peaslees wife was of that family, and when he died, his daughters sold the summer cottage in Glenview for $5,000 to pay for the monument. Section a, Lot 15 |
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| Bingham Monument |
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| The Bingham family monument: Elenor Miller Bingham died in 1913 as the result of an automobile accident and was buried with the Miller family. In 1917 her remains were reinterred on lot 102, Section 13. Her husband, Robert Worth Bingham, was buried with her in 1937. |
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| Sanders Monument |
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| The Sanders monument, designed by the Keith Monument Company, suggest the KFC headquarters building and frames a bust by his daughter Margaret Huenergardt. |
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| Bowles Monument |
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| Monument designed by Robert E. Launitz for the family of Joshua Bethel Bowles (Section O. lot 303) overlooks part of the National Cemetery, established in 1861 (Jefferson County Deed Book 206, p.440). Bowles established a wholesale dry-goods house and was president of the Bank of Louisville, Chamber of Commerce, and the Franklin Fire Insurance Company and was active in the University of Louisvilles early affairs. |
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| Tingly Fountain |
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| William Tingley (1828-1914) was a wagon maker of enough competence and success to provide a public memorial to himself and his better known brother, George H. Tingley (1827-1906), who had been superintendent of the Louisville school system from 1863-1894. |
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| Eastin Monument |
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| Judge George B. Eastin (1843-1896) went to Italy visiting points of interest and hoping the climate would provide some relief to him. He died in Rome. He was a popular lawyer who had an appointed stint on the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1895. His wife, Fannie Castleman Eastin, sister of General John B. Castleman, erected the expressive monument to My Darling Husband, in Section A, lot 360. |
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| Guendaline Monument |
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| Larger than life portrait statues in Greek marble by Gilbert Bayes of London depicting Mary Guendaline (also spelled Gwendoline) Byrd Caldwell Marquise Des Monstiers Merinville (1863-1901) and her sister Mary Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell, the Baroness Von Zedtwitz (1865-1910), within an exedra executed and erected by the Harrison Granite Company of New York City, 1910-1912, Section 13, lot 111. |
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