Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis, Indiana)

 cemetery, arboretum, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, green space

www.crownhill.org
(317) 925-3800

Crown Hill Cemetery is the third-largest non-government cemetery in the U.S. Dedicated in 1864, the cemetery covers over 555 acres, contains two U.S. National Cemeteries, and includes more than 200,000 burials and entombments. The cemetery is still active, serving 1,200 to 1,500 services annually.

A wide variety of people have been buried here including poets James Whitcomb Riley and Etheridge Knight; Indiana author Booth Tarkington; U.S. President Benjamin Harrison; Eli Lilly; carmaker Frederick Duesenberg; Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher; inventor of the Gatling gun Richard Gatling; and gangster John Dillinger. Crown Hill has more former Vice Presidents interred here (three) than any other location in the U.S., three other prominent, though unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates, 11 Indiana governors, 14 U.S. Senators, and numerous other cabinet officers, representatives, diplomats, state legislators, and mayors.