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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 Cemetery was begun in the 1840s, to replace the Newport, Cemetery. The cemetery was located a few miles south of Newport, in a rural area, which is now the City of Southgate, Kentucky . A defensive earthwork named Shaler Battery , built as part of the Defense of Cincinnati , remains preserved within the cemetery and is located adjacent to ...
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.
The Taylor family in the 1920s initiated the effort to turn the Taylor burial grounds into a national cemetery. The commonwealth of Kentucky donated two adjacent parcels of land for the project, turning the half-acre Taylor family cemetery into 16 acres (6.5 ha). However, the Army judge advocate general ruled against acquiring the Taylor 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 ...
The cemetery is known today as The Old Soldiers Cemetery. The old Civil War cemetery was marked with a Kentucky Historical Society Roadside Marker on July 9, 2012. [1] The information on the historical marker reads as follows: Tompkinsville National Cemetery. In 1861, during the Civil War, land was donated by J.B. Evans for the burial of Union ...
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.