Tour Fort Hill's most famous

By The Citizen staff report

Friday, October 19, 2007 10:59 AM EDT

Collin Sullivan and Laurel Auchampaugh will conduct guided tours of Fort Hill Cemetery Sunday. The tour will take off from Bradley Chapel.
Visitors will be able to view the grave sites of important figures in Auburn's history, such as Auburn High School and Cornell football star Jerome “Brud” Holland; sound-on-film pioneer Theodore Case; politician William Seward; Dr. Sylvester Willard, who helped organize the Oswego Starch Factory; women's rights activists and pioneers Martha Coffin Wright and Eliza Wright Osbourne; co-founder of the American Theological Society Allen Macy Dulles; John H. Beach, who helped bring the Auburn Correctional Facility to the city; and abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Tickets can be purchased at the Community Preservation Committee office located at Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson St., Auburn. Tickets can also be purchased at Bradley Chapel on the day of the tour.

If you go

What: Guided tours of Fort Hill Cemetery with Collin Sullivan and Laurel Auchampaugh

When: 2 p.m. Sunday

Where: Bradley Chapel, 19 Fort St., Auburn

Admission: $5

For details: Call 252-0339

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