Fort Hill Cemetery

The cemetery, which was founded in the mid 19th Century, is built on what was once a fortified village of the Cayuga Indians.[1] The cemetery features a 56 ft (17 m). high limestone obelisk monument to Chief Logan, famed chief of the Iroquois Indians.[2]

The cemetery features headstones of such notable people as:[3]

• Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, a pioneering early female classicist, who worked at Vassar College.
• Myles Walter Keogh, civil war Brevet Lt. Colonel; fell at the Battle of the Little Bighorn with Custer.
• Fannie E. McKinney-Hughey, music teacher who developed the Color-Music method to teach music to children.
• Thomas Mott Osborne, Warden of Sing Sing
• Frances Adeline Seward, wife of William H. Seward and abolitionist
• William H. Seward, New York Governor, Senator and U.S. Secretary of State
• William H. Seward Jr., banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• 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, feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments.

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  The Harriet Tubman Grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[4]
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  Monument to Chief Logan at Fort Hill Cemetery
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  Morse bench in Fort Hill Cemetery
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  Wadsworth memorial
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  Corning memorial
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  Angel headstone scene
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  Case & Willard memorial

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