Yale Bulletin and Calendar

June 21-July 19, 1999

Volume 27, Number 34

Tours of historic Grove Street
Cemetery are being offered

During the summer months and through the early fall, the public is invited to free walking tours of the historic Grove Street Cemetery, the first chartered burial ground in the United States and the final resting place for many notable people in both Yale and U.S. history.

The hour-long tours, which will be offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. through the middle of October, are sponsored by the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery, a group of Yale and New Haven community members who are committed to the preservation of the burial ground and to sharing its rich history.

Grove Street Cemetery opened in October 1797 through the efforts of a group of New Haven citizens led by U.S. Senator James Hillhouse. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the cemetery is the final resting place of such noted Yale alumni as inventor Eli Whitney, lexicographer Noah Webster, scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs Jr., paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh and Walter Camp, father of American football.

Also buried in the cemetery are such civic leaders as Roger Sherman, the only person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and Roger Sherman Baldwin, who argued the legal case for the enslaved Africans who arrived from their homeland aboard the "Amistad" ship. Jedidiah Morse, father of American geography, and Worthington Hooker, father of American medical ethics, are also buried there.

Tour participants should gather at the cemetery's chapel immediately inside the Egyptian revival gates on Grove Street at High Street. Tours will be led by trained docents. For further information, call the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery and leave a message at 230-9858. That number may also be used for questions regarding tours during inclement weather.

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