The Gilded Age Residents of Cedar Grove Cemetery

Saturday, October 4, 11:00 AM – SOLD OUT

Description: The Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a time of both great wealth and great poverty and people from all along this socio-economic spectrum called New London home during that time. Join us for this tour that features stories of some of New London’s most powerful, politically connected and wealthiest residents, who are now permanent residents of Cedar Grove Cemetery. We’ll also talk about Victorian death, burial and funerary customs and some of the not-so-elite and newer immigrants who kept industry humming in this time period and now are buried at Cedar Grove.

Hosted by: Friends of Cedar Grove Cemetery and New London Landmarks

Tickets: Members: $20 | General Public: $25 | Purchase in Advance through New London Landmarks

Notes: The tour is about an hour in duration. Walking is easy as we’ll stay primarily on the flat, paved cemetery roads. Starting point is near the Plant family monument that is close to the maintenance building. Tour participants will have an opportunity to peek inside one of Cedar Grove’s Gilded Age family mausoleums/chapels.

Parking: is along the paved cemetery roads or near the stone maintenance building at about the mid-point of the cemetery (enter the Broad Street gates, drive straight back and once past the office building, take the second left toward the stone building).