At Mt. Hope Cemetery, mission to commemorate unmarked graves
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Recognizing a neglected aspect of our community's history — that's the mission of St. John Fisher faculty at Rochester's historic Mount Hope Cemetery. Fisher staff are honoring the hundreds of unmarked gravesites in the public section of the cemetery. It's a project that started at the beginning of the pandemic. Organizers say it's an effort to memorialize those who died in the Monroe County Asylum and Penitentiary during the 19th century, who otherwise did not have […]
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