Fort Hill Cemetery
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Fort Hill Cemetery, founded in 1851, is a cemetery
located in downtown Auburn, New York
. It features headstones of such notable people as William H. Seward
with his son, William H. Seward, Jr.
. It also included Harriet Tubman
who is resting on Fort Hill Cemetery's "West Lawn C", beneath a large tree with two small bushes on each side of her headstone, Martha Coffin Wright
, Myles Walter Keogh, and Thomas Mott Osborne
.
The cemetery is built on what was once a fortified village of the Cayuga Indians
. It also features a 56 ft (17.1 m). high limestone obelisk monument to Chief Logan
, famed chief of the Cayuga Indians.
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
located in downtown Auburn, New York
Auburn, New York
Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States of America. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 27,687...
. It features headstones of such notable people as William H. Seward
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...
with his son, William H. Seward, Jr.
William H. Seward, Jr.
William Henry Seward, Jr. was born in Auburn, New York, the son of United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward, Sr...
. It also included Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...
who is resting on Fort Hill Cemetery's "West Lawn C", beneath a large tree with two small bushes on each side of her headstone, Martha Coffin Wright
Martha Coffin Wright
Martha Coffin Wright was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments.-Early life:...
, Myles Walter Keogh, and Thomas Mott Osborne
Thomas Mott Osborne
Thomas Mott Osborne was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist and New York State political reformer...
.
The cemetery is built on what was once a fortified village of the Cayuga Indians
Cayuga nation
The Cayuga people was one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee , a confederacy of American Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west...
. It also features a 56 ft (17.1 m). high limestone obelisk monument to Chief Logan
Chief Logan
Logan the Orator was a Native American orator and war leader born in the Iroquois Confederacy. Although he was of the Cayuga nation, after his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he was sometimes referred to as a Mingo. His revenge for the killing of family members by American frontiersmen helped...
, famed chief of the Cayuga Indians.