Monroe Street Cemetery - Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Click on title to access the website for the Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation to view a list of their upcoming events which includes this Sunday, September 18 at 2:00pm. 

I am not sure if a person can attend without registering and paying the $15.00 fee ahead of time, however,  if you are interested to learn more you can contact them at: 

Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation

3302 Hancock Ave.

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Phone: 216 961 6945

Email: mscf3207@att.net

Click here for the Registration Form link:

From their website:

September 18th

Tours start at 2:00 PM

"Meet the Neighbors: Monroe Goes to War Edition returns and this time it is all about the Civil War. How appropriate since this year is the sesquicentennial of the start of that purging of our national pride. Monroe Street Cemetery is the resting place of over 400 veterans of the CW but also is the resting spot of an avid abolitionist who spoke at a memorial after John Brown was hanged, the operator of a stop on the Underground Railroad, the leader of the Fugitive Slave Society of Cleveland, and, believe it or not, a Confederate soldier. Remember the Civil War during this sesquicentennial year. Join us for a guided tour of Monroe Street Cemetery.

 

Update on Monroe Street Cemetery - Cleveland, Cuyaghoga County, Ohio

Click on link to access a news story in the Cleveland "Plain Dealer", July 21, 2010, with an update on the restoration of the Monroe Street Cemetery's historic gatehouse.

Monroe Street Cemetery - Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Click on title to read a great story about the Monroe Street Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio (featured on the website "Cleveland.com").  The story mentions that the first burial at Monroe Street Cemetery was 1818 and the most recent burial was 2006.  This means it can be considered an 'active' cemetery. 

Hopefully, a bright future will be on the horizon for Monroe Street Cemetery to receive the improvements it needs so people can once again visit and walk through its grounds.

Monroe Street Cemetery "Haunted Cleveland" Tour - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 2:00p.m.

Click on Title to link to a Cleveland "Plain Dealer" story (October 9, 2009) in the "Friday" entertainment supplement about a cemetery tour of the Monroe Street Cemetery, located at 3207 Monroe Street in Cleveland slated for Sunday, October 11, 2009, beginning at 2:00p.m. that also has a worthwhile purpose - to repair the cemetery's 1876 gate house with the money raised from the tour's admissions. 

The advertised cost of the tour is $15.00.  

During the tour, costumed interpreters will be at different gravesites telling true life stories of some of Monroe Street Cemetery's more interesting and colorful "residents."  

  A link below to Monroe Street Cemetery on "Findagrave.com" (shows map, records location information, and brief history - 1,144 currently listed interments):
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=42187&CScn=Monroe+Street&CScntry=4&CSst=37