Eastern Cemetery, Louisville

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Eastern Cemetery is a 28-acre cemetery located at 641 Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, abutting Cave Hill Cemetery. It contains about 16,000 graves, though documentation for about 138,000 bodies. This imbalance is due to the cemetery formerly being a site for mass paupers' graves and from the reuse of grave sites. ()

Coordinates: 38°14'48"N, 85°43'29"W

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639 Baxter AveThe Highlands (Cherokee Triangle)Louisville 40204 United States

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Eastern Cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Louisville Slugger Field, Mid-City Mall, Highland Presbyterian Church, Hadley Pottery.

1.3 miNW
Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums
Louisville Slugger Field, Louisville
33 min walk • Louisville Slugger Field is a baseball stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. The baseball-specific stadium opened in 2000 with a seating capacity of 13,131.
0.9 miSE
Shopping, Shopping centre, Cinema
Mid-City Mall, Louisville
24 min walk • Mid City Mall is a shopping mall in Louisville, Kentucky's Highlands area. While called a mall, and containing an enclosed shopping area, it has features atypical of suburban American malls, such as a comedy club, bar, grocery store and public library.
0.4 miS
Church
Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville
11 min walk • Highland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church located in Louisville, Kentucky, US. The church was founded in 1873 with a meeting in a local physician's home; the current sanctuary was built in 1888.
0.8 miN
Shopping
Hadley Pottery, Louisville
21 min walk • Hadley Pottery is an American-based pottery and stoneware company started by Mary Alice Hadley and her husband George E. Hadley in 1945. It is located on Story Avenue in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
1 miNW
Museum, History museum, Architecture
Thomas Edison House, Louisville
25 min walk • Thomas Edison House is a historic house located in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The house is a shotgun duplex built around 1850.
0.5 miE
Cemetery, Lake, Historical place
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville
13 min walk • Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive.
1.1 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St. Boniface's Catholic Church, Louisville
28 min walk • St. Boniface Catholic Church is a historic church at 501-531 E. Liberty Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 1836, St. Boniface was the first German Catholic parish in the city. It is also the oldest, continuously existent, Catholic parish in the city of Louisville.
0.6 miSW
Church
German Evangelical Church of Christ Complex, Louisville
15 min walk • The German Evangelical Church of Christ Complex is a historic church complex at 1236 E. Breckinridge Street in Louisville, Kentucky. It was built during the years 1902 to 1929 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
1 miSE
Monuments and statues
John B. Castleman Monument, Louisville
27 min walk • The John B. Castleman Monument, within the Cherokee Triangle of Louisville, Kentucky, was unveiled on November 8, 1913. The model, selected from a competition to which numerous sculptors contributed, was designed by R. Hinton Perry of New York.
1.2 miSE
Church
St. James Catholic Church, Louisville
32 min walk • St. James Church is a historic Roman Catholic church located at 1826 Edenside Avenue in the Highlands section of Louisville, Kentucky. March 1, 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. James Roman Catholic Church, Rectory, and School.
0.8 miN
38°15'30"N • 85°43'27"W
Story Avenue Park, Louisville
21 min walk • Park

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Which popular attractions are close to Eastern Cemetery?

Nearby attractions include Union Monument in Louisville, Louisville (5 min walk), 32nd Indiana Monument, Louisville (7 min walk), Irish Hill, Louisville (8 min walk), Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville (11 min walk).

How to get to Eastern Cemetery by public transport?

The nearest stations to Eastern Cemetery:

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Main / Railroad • Lines: 15East Chenoweth&VA, 15East LaGrange, 15East LimeKiln, 15East LimeKiln&VA (13 min walk)
Main / Mellwood • Lines: 15East Chenoweth&VA, 15East LaGrange, 15East LimeKiln, 15East LimeKiln&VA (14 min walk)