About this Event
Mount Hope Cemetery began as an unsegregated cemetery in the 1830s for the City of Rochester. Nowadays, it is still a working cemetery that has become a historical treasure chest filled with the hopes, dreams and longings of 375,000 permanent residents and those whose lives they touched.
South Wedge author Rose O'Keefe will introduce you to a variety of people including human rights advocates Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lars Larson, Isaac and Amy Post, and Rev. Thomas James; Louis H. Morgan, Father of American Anthropology; City founder, Nathanial Rochester; and Silas Cornell, the cemetery's surveyor.
Get to know local history in a casual setting.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Abundance Food Co-op, 571 South Avenue, Rochester, United States
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