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2024 Restoration Projects

May 10, 2024

Section EThe huge hill behind the gatehouse and the adjoining flat area on Mount Hope Avenue make up Section E. While the flat area has been developed with cradle graves […]

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Historians from a Rochester cemetery are visiting the final resting places of some of the city's notable figures in STEM, celebrating the gift of science. Residents and tourists are commemorating several astronomical discoveries made there.

Gearing up for solar eclipse, Mount Hope Cemetery commemorates Rochester’s astronomical discoveries

April 9, 2024

Historians from a Rochester cemetery are visiting the final resting places of some of the city’s notable figures in STEM, celebrating the gift of science.

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Mount Hope Cemetery Bluebird Project

2023 Bluebird Project Report

March 15, 2024

This is a brief end-of-year report for 2023.  Before the season began, we put up the two new House Sparrow resistant boxes and the one good box that was taken […]

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Kurt Becker Holocaust Survivor

Kurt Becker

January 22, 2024

By Marjorie Barkin Searl Kurt Becker was born in Berlin, Germany. He escaped to Shanghai, China, which did not require visas to find refuge, and left Shanghai and arrived in […]

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Edith Becker - Holocaust Survivor

Edith Becker

January 22, 2024

By Marjorie Barkin Searl Edith Becker was born in Posen or Gosen, Poland, based on the manifest of the ship taking her from Shanghai to the United States. However, in […]

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St. John Fisher University Faculty Spearheads Mission to Honor the Unnamed Deceased at Mount Hope Cemetery

Invisible No More:  Honoring the Deceased Buried in the Public Section of Mount Hope Cemetery

January 12, 2024

St. John Fisher University Faculty Spearheads Mission to Honor the Unnamed Deceased at Mount Hope Cemetery – October 16, 2023 A memorial honoring hundreds of individuals buried in unmarked graves […]

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