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Mount Hope has become more than a cemetary... it is a park. Folks jog past the tombstones... walk their dogs through the intricate maze of roadways... and spectators enjoy the sculpture as if in an art museum. The cemetary is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mount Hope is the first municipal Victorian Cemetary in America established in 1838.It has 14 1/2 miles of roads and measures 196 acres set in a geological formation of eskers and kettles left by glaciers. Mount Hope has 379,000 residents and grows 1 per day.