Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum

If you could take just one photo: Cave Hill Cemetery Company

Shake off those heebie-jeebies; nothing here can harm you. After all, when have human casualties been linked to a locale that’s certified by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places? Exactly. If you can think of a more soothing place for this experience you can have my homemade Derby-Pie® from Lynn’s Paradise Café… Exactly. You smell fried chicken? Say, isn’t Colonel Sanders buried around here? Anyway, so where do we lay down the blanket? The duck pond is too distracting, you say? Look, this place has 296+ acres to choose from; certainly there’s a spot we both can agree on. What’s that, somewhere shady? There are 500 species of trees and scrubs, so take your pick. This massive oak looks perfect. Who ever said good times and cemeteries couldn’t go together has obviously never been to Cave Hill Cemetery.

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Among the elaborate mausoleums erected by the Victorians as a symbol of their wealth, rest rows of symmetrically positioned small, white stone rich in history. Cave Hill Cemetery is the final resting place for soldiers who fought against change and their antagonists. Union and Confederate soldiers rest side by side in peace—most of the Union soldiers unknown but respected as a part of Kentucky’s history. The silence that the rows emit allows the mind to create stories and bring life to a name or the unnamed. Not only do the opposing soldier’s stories haunt the land but mysteries of a cave and historical buildings also inhabit this 300-acre cemetery. Guided tours are given to those wanting to walk among the symmetrical rows of white and dwell upon the past through stories that make the small stones monumental.

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