YES, Crown Hill is a cemetery, a big cemetery. At 555 acres it is the third largest cemetery in the United States.

But Crown Hill is also a classroom. As the final resting place of pioneers, a president, vice president, governors, senators, generals and thousands of others who went about their everyday lives in different times, it is a history classroom. With its poets, authors, and epitaphs in various languages, it is a language arts classroom. Surrounded by numbers and geometrical shapes, students turn it into a math classroom when they are asked to relate those numbers to each other in as may ways as the teacher can devise, and to identify as many shapes as possible. In earlier years, Crown Hill was a favorite place to stroll, to picnic, and to show off to visitors. It was not unusual for the prominent families of the day to have their family monuments designed by the area's best artists, architects, and sculptors. With ninety statues, many stained glass windows, hundreds of elaborate monuments, and building by the leading architects of the day, Crown Hill is an art classroom. And as a geologic feature that remains the home of many types of animals and over 100 identified species of trees, it is also a science classroom.

Each year several thousand students visit Crown Hill. It is our hope that the following materials will help make their visits more profitable and encourage even more teachers to take advantage of our many resources.

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty of high ideals."

William Ewart. Gladstone (1808-98)
British Prime Minister

 

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