Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky)

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Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. It is open daily to the public from 8:00 AM to 4:45 PM (weather permitting). Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. Both former Louisville mayors for whom these streets are named (James F. Grinstead and John G Baxter), are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. It is the largest cemetery by area and number of burials in Louisville.

Cave Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Cave Hill National Cemetery, containing military graves, is also on the National Register, added in 1998.

Contains grave site of Col. Harland (David) Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. George Rogers Clark ("Conqueror of the Old Northwest") is also buried here. He led raids on the British forts in what is now Indiana during the American Revolution and lived out his final years in Louisville.

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