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Can you solve these Riddles about Mt. Hope Cemetery? PeoplePlacesDatesPeople PlacesPeople Dates People Places PeoplePlacesDatesPeople
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Answer What founder of Rochester, NY is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery?
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People Back to Game Nathaniel Rochester
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People What woman is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery whose toy collection was so large it started a museum? Answer
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People Margaret Woodbury Strong Back to Game
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People Who published the abolitionist newspaper in the 1800’s named the “North Star”? Answer
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People Frederick Douglass Back to Game
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People Who died at the young age of 11 and was refused burial at Mt. hope Cemetery due to the color of her skin? Answer
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People Annie Douglass Back to Game
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People What famous suffragist flipped a coin with her sister to see who would work at a mill? Answer
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People Susan Brownell Anthony Back to Game
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People Do you know who “Lomb” is in the name Bausch & Lomb? Answer
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People Henry Lomb Back to Game
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People What family’s house was a station on the Underground Railroad and often visited by Harriet Tubman? Answer
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People The Porter family Back to Game
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People What Quaker family was a strong supporter of the North Star and a common meeting place for abolitionists? Answer
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People The Post Family Back to Game
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Places What is the scientific name for the ridges that wind through Mt. Hope Cemetery that the Native Americans used as paths? Answer
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Places They are eskers left by glaciers more than 50,000 years ago. Back to Game
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Places What was formed during the ice-age when icebergs fell from the glacier onto the ground? Answer
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Places The Lily Pond, which is now called Sylvan Waters. Back to Game
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Places What place started wooden and Egyptian-like in 1850, was changed to masonry in 1874 and finally an iron fence added later? Answer
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Places The Main Gatehouse Entrance Back to Game
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Places What place in the cemetery could visitors meet to have lunch and get out of the rain? Answer
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Places The gazebo near the entrance which was made in 1872 and fixed up by the Friends of Mt. Hope in the 1970’s. Back to Game
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Dates In 1979, what group of volunteers began reviving Mt. Hope Cemetery back to its previous splendor? Answer
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Dates Friends of Mt. Hope Back to Game
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Dates One of the oldest municipal cemeteries in the U.S., Mt. Hope was dedicated in what year? Answer
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Dates October 3, 1838 Back to Game
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Dates Susan Brownell Anthony was born in 1820 on the 15 th of what month? Answer
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Dates February Back to Game
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Dates Frederick Douglass died on February 20th of what year? Answer
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Dates 1895 Back to Game
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