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Atlas Preservation’s 48 State Tour – Louisville, Kentucky

Join us at Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, KY. Free & open to the public 9am-3pm (local time) - Check out the Find a Grave and Eastern Cemetery website: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/73814/eastern-cemetery https://friendsofeasterncemetery.com/ - Particip...
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Figures of Eastern Cemetery

In this ongoing series, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery in conjunction with Western Library will feature individuals from Louisville's Eastern Cemetery to highlight their contributions to Louisville. A brief history of Eastern Cemetery as well as tips on finding relatives...
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Finding a Grave

If you are looking for a loved one or a specific grave site in Eastern Cemetery, please start with our previous blog post on this. Once you have a burial location, you should have a Section letter or number, a Range or Row letter or number, and then a Grave number. You ca...
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Eastern needs you now!

We’ve had several people comment about how bad Eastern Cemetery looked a week ago compared to how good it looks currently, so we want to take a minute and explain a few things. For many years Dismas Charities, which is a prisoner reentry program, has had a grounds keeping...
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Facing East: The Eastern Cemetery Documentary

It's finally here! After years of work, the documentary on the history of Eastern Cemetery has been released by Ronin Noir Films. It is currently only available for online streaming. The following platforms provide streaming of the film: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Dish, ...
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Wake House Restoration Complete

We have completed a full restoration of the circa 1891 Clarke and Loomis-designed wake house! The work was done in two phases thanks to two Kentucky Colonels Good Works Program grants. The first phase included tuckpointing and repair to the interior and exterior of the st...
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Figures of Louisville’s Eastern Cemetery

In this ongoing series, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery in conjunction with Western Library will feature individuals from Louisville’s Eastern Cemetery to highlight their contributions to Louisville. A brief history of Eastern Cemetery as well as tips on finding relatives...
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Looking for someone buried at Eastern Cemetery?

The University of Louisville has all of the salvaged records from Eastern Cemetery. To find burial location information, please email ceminfo@louisville.edu with as much information you have on the individual (name, birth date, death date, etc.). Once you have burial info...
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Give for Good Louisville 2019

We are participating in Give for Good Louisville again this year, September 12th! The online day of giving has been a great fundraiser for us, and we had great success last year giving each of our amazing donors a free gift for their donation. Without your help, we would...
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Women’s History Month

It was our honor to feature women buried in Eastern Cemetery every day on our Facebook and Instagram accounts to celebrate Women's History Month in March. There are many more that we have yet to discover. We hope to continue sharing their stories with you throughout the...
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