Central Park For The Dead Traditional Cache
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Central Park For The Dead
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Hillside Cemetery was designed by Calvert Vaux who codesigned Central Park with Frederick Law Olmsted. It opened in 1861. There are several thousand graves, some with excellent examples of 19th-century funerary art.
The cache is not located near any gravesites. Please do not look for this cache after dark, and be respectful of your surroundings.
The cemetery is located in southeastern Middletown, a few blocks from the city's downtown. It is a 52-acre parcel built on the side of a hill. Mulberry Street is on the east, with woods to the north and west and a residential neighborhood on the north.
It is built into a hillside that rises sharply to the north. The slope is cut into a series of undulating bluffs to accommodate the graves and curving roads around the cemetery. There is a pond near the upper end of the property and the remains of a second at the lower end. A tributary of Monhagen Brook runs across the property from the northwest to the east. There are groves of mature shade trees.
At the front gate is a Gothic Revival stone office building. It is a contributing resource to the National Register listing, but is no longer used. Instead most administrative functions are handled at a more modern maintenance garage. Scattered throughout the cemetery are various mausolea and other memorials.
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