Fort Hill Cemetery
Fort Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Auburn, New York, United States. It was incorporated on May 15, 1851 under its official name: "Trustees of the Fort Hill Cemetery Association of Auburn". It is known for its headstones of notable people such as former Secretary of State William H. Seward, his son, William H. Seward Jr. and abolitionist and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. It is built on what was once a fortified village of the Cayuga Nation. The cemetery features a . high limestone obelisk monument to Chief Logan, famed chief of the Haudenosaunee. Notable burials The cemetery features headstones of such notable people as: * 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. * Benjamin C. Mead, United States Attorney f ...
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Auburn, New York
Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census. It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat, and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. History The region around Auburn had been Haudenosaunee territory for centuries before European contact and historical records. Auburn was founded in 1793, during the post-Revolutionary period of settlement of western New York. The founder, John L. Hardenbergh, was a veteran of the Sullivan-Clinton campaign against the Iroquois during the American Revolution. Hardenbergh settled in the vicinity of the Owasco River with his infant daughter and two African-American indentured servants, Harry and Kate Freeman. After his death in 1806, Hardenbergh was buried in Aub ...
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