Friends of Mount Hope
Rochester was the center of national attention in November 1872 with the arrest of Susan B. Anthony for voting in the election. Just days into the same year, the city […]
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When the daughter of a respected Rochester family inexplicably disappeared in November 1854, the mysterious incident was reported in the New York Times and newspapers across the country. Four months […]
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Leander W. McCord Jr. was one of the Rochester region’s foremost residential architects of the Jazz Age. His career spanned from the early 1910s through the late 1940s, reaching its […]
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Today the Friends of Mount Hope welcomed Rochester Mayor Malik Evans to Mount Hope Cemetery. Patricia Corcoran, FOMH President, along with Board Trustees, showed off some of the restoration & […]
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By Marjorie Searl Yakov Afanasyev was born in Ploskoye, Smolenskiy Region, Russia to Klara Kalmanovna Afanasyeva and Semyon Afanaseyov. HIs father was killed at the Front in the early days […]
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This is a brief end-of-year report. If you would like any other information or more detail, please contact me. This year the number of successful broods again decreased. This might […]
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