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This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Kentucky which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.
The Frankfort Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located on East Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone , the famed frontiersman, and contains the graves of other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors and a Vice President of the United States .
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Ashland Cemetery (Kentucky) Athey's Chapel Cemetery; B. Bellevue Cemetery ...
Eastern Cemetery is a 28-acre cemetery located at 641 Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, abutting Cave Hill Cemetery. [1] It contains about 16,000 graves, though documentation for about 138,000 bodies. [1] This imbalance is due to the cemetery formerly being a site for mass paupers' graves and from the reuse of grave sites ...
Kentucky law requires 30% of a cemetery’s revenue to go into a perpetual care fund. To make sure the long history of the cemetery stays alive, the Lexington Cemetery puts 60% into perpetual care.
Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre (1.20 km 2) Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive.
The Saint Louis Cemetery performed its first services in 1811 behind the Saint Louis Church at 10th and Main Street in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1831, the Saint Louis Church and the gravesites were moved to the Catholic section of the Western Cemetery. The graves were moved again in 1867 when the Saint Louis Cemetery was established.