Site 1 – Silent City on a Hill

 

The public will be gratified to learn that the arrangements for a rural cemetery in this vicinity are completed, and that, from its suitable distance from the city, the convenient access to it on a gravel way without any railroad crossing, and the appropriate features of the grounds, with the crowning beauty of including the most conspicuous elevation in this region, we may be assured that, in the hands of the citizens who have engaged in the enterprise, Crown Hill Cemetery will, in its future, rank favorably with the lovely cities of the dead, which are so pleasantly attractive in other parts of the country. (The first public account of Crown Hill Cemetery as it appeared in the Indiana State Sentinel, October 22, 1863.)