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