| 1863 | Sept. 25: | Cemetery is incorporated as a non-profit, non-denominational, and non-sectarian with a Board of thirty corporators. |
| Oct. 16: | First 236 acres of land are purchased from three local farmers for $51,000. | |
| Dec. 31: | Fredrick Chislett, landscape architect and first superintendent, moves his family into a cabin on the south approach of "The Crown." | |
| 1864 | June 1: | Dedication ceremony for the new cemetery. |
| June 2: | Lucy Ann Seaton becomes the first burial, her funeral conducted by Rev. Hanford Edson. | |
| July 30: | Main entrance and lodge (on the Michigan Road) is completed. | |
| Oct. 30: | East Entrance to the cemetery is open | |
| Fall: | First private mausoleum for the Smith family is completed in Section 5. | |
| 1865 | Feb. 19: | Josephine Jones becomes the first Black interment at Crown Hill. |
| 1866 | May 1: | Gatehouse at the east entrance is completed |
| July 1: | A total of 480 burials are recorded with 71 monuments and 85 memorials | |
| Aug. 27: | U.S. Government purchases land for a National Cemetery. The first 707 soldiers are removed to this place in November. | |
| 1867 | Sept. 9: | A residence for the superintendent on the grounds is approved with completion in 1869. |
| 1868 | May 30: | First Memorial Day is celebrated at the National Cemetery. |
| 1869 | June 1: | Grounds are expanded to 256 acres. |
| 1872 | Apr. 12: | Crown Hill Board votes to help finance the replacement of a wooden bridge over Fall Creek with an iron one so that large monuments can be brought to the cemetery. |
| 1875 | Jan. 7: | Gothic chapel designed by D.A. Bohlen is commenced and completed by year's end. |
| 1877 | Nov. 13: | Cemetery donates several lots to various benevolent societies. |
| 1878 | Apr. 26: | Oliver P. Morton become the first of ten Indiana governors interred at Crown Hill. |
| 1880 | Jan. 20: | First telephone installed at the cemetery |
| 1885 | Nov: | New Archway and Waiting Station is completed at the east gate, which becomes the main entrance. |
| 1886 | Apr. 30: | All property south of Maple Road (38th St. )has been purchased and amounts to 393 acres. |
| 1889 | July: | A total of 157 acres on the north side of Maple Road is purchased. |
| 1901 | April: | Original main entrance on Michigan Road is razed and replaced by a new west entrance of the southwest corner of South Grounds. |
| 1911 | Oct. 11: | Fourty acres on north side of Maple Road purchased. |
| 1912 | Feb: | Reburial of 1,100 Indianapolis pioneers are made from Greenlawn Cemetery. |
| 1912 | Nov 7: | Autos are permitted entrance to the cemetery. |
| 1914 | May: | A new superintendent's residence is planned south of the Waiting Station on Boulevard Place. |
| 1914 | June: | First sections of the brick and wrought iron fence are completed on the north and south sides of 38th St. |
| 1917 | Oct. 17: | James Whitcomb Riley become the first burial on "The Crown." |
| 1918 | April: | First automobile is purchased for the cemetery. |
| 1925 | Fall: | Bridge / underpass Subway beneath 38th St. is commenced. It is completed by the summer 1927. |
| 1931 | Oct. 27: | Confederate dead, numbering 1, 616 prisoners of war who died at Camp Morton in the city , are reburied from Greenlawn. |
| 1933 | Feb. 7: | Last cemetery work horses are sold. |
| 1935 | Nov. 16: | First family interment is made in the North Grounds (Section 223). |
| 1942 | Oct: | Military bivouac or "War Show" consisting of more than 250 pyramidal tents and 2,600 soldiers is erected on the North Grounds to aid in recruiting efforts. |
| 1950 | June: | Last two dwellings (including the superintendent's home) are razed. |
| 1951 | Jan. 13: | Community Mausoleum dedicated. |
| 1957 | April: | Entrance north of 38th St. opened. |
| 1962 | Spring: | First of several Garden Crypts is erected east to the Community Mausoleum. |
| 1968 | April: | Southwest entrance (at 32nd and the old Michigan Road) is closed and removed.. |
| 1968 | July: | Ground broken for the New Administration Building at the 38th St. Office moved to this location in March 1970 |
| 1972 | May 2: | Restored Gothic Chapel is dedicated. |
| 1973 | Feb. 28: | Crown Hill Cemetery is designated a National Historic Place. |
| 1985 | Apr.10: | Crown Hill Heritage Foundation incorporated to aid with preserving Crown Hill's heritage. |
| 1987 | April: | Equatorial Sundial placed in front of the Community Mausoleum |
| 1988 | Spring: | Crown Hill Cemetery is recognized as a museum of local and state history. |
| 1990 | Fall: | The Lewis E. Enkema Fountain placed inside the 34th St. entrance. |
| 1991 | May 27: | Dedication of the monument in the new military section. Honors are extended to the United States Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, and Coast Guard. |
| 1992 | Fall: | Historic brick fence restoration completed. |
| 1993 | Spring: | Crown Hill Funeral Home dedicated. |
| Oct. 3: | Rededication of the Confederate lot (bronze plaques at this site contain the names of those interred here). | |
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