Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The gates are open daily to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m and office hours are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m to 12 p.m. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. It was designed by Charles S. Bell and John Lutz. It was originally 40 acres but has  expanded to 170 acres with more than 64,000 interments. Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Within the cemetery are three places that are listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places from the main cemetery : Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery. Some notable people. The Lexington Cemetery maintains a list of notable interments, others are listed here: - Pillars of the Turf