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Frankfort Cemetery began in the early 1840s and was the second incorporated Memorial park in the country. It overlooks the city of Frankfort and the Kentucky River. Daniel and Rebecca Boone were the first to be laid to rest in the cemetery.
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.
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For over 150 years, one of Frankfort’s earliest cemeteries lay buried and forgotten at the base of Fort Hill, no more than three blocks from Kentucky’s Old State Capitol.
Frankfort Cemetery is a highly scenic cemetery whose southern edge overlooks the Kentucky River, the state capitol and the town of Frankfort. The cemetery has been described as "Kentucky's Westminster" because of the number of famous people buried here.
Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky. 762 likes · 12 were here. Frankfort Cemetery is Frankfort's only perpetual care cemetery and home to famous Kentuckians, Daniel and Rebecca Boone and many more.
The Frankfort Cemetery is proud to be the final resting place of many notable figures in both Frankfort and Kentucky’s history. Perhaps most notable are Daniel and Rebecca Boone . While the Frankfort Cemetery welcomes and encourages visitors, school groups, and touring groups to pay their respects to the Boones and countless others, this is ...
Frankfort, KY 40601 Phone: 502-227-2403 Fax: 502-259-0997 Email. HOURS OF OPERATION The Cemetery Grounds are open 7:30 am until 8:30 pm. Winter (After daylight savings time ends, the closing time will go back to 5:30 pm.) Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Between 1978 and 1988, the Kentucky Genealogical Society began documenting the Frankfort Cemetery located in Frankfort, Kentucky. Project Chair, Ramona Slattery, lead a team of close to 50 people. This project was an immense undertaking.
The Frankfort Cemetery Board built a Chapel in 1890 on the cliff overlooking Frankfort. The Romanesque style structure was surrounded on three sides by a wide covered veranda. Groups of slender Doric columns flanked each of the 3 entrances, and a broad sweeping arch crossed over the front.
