~ ROCHESTER'S HISTORY ~
AN ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE
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VICTORIAN CEMETERY MONUMENTS
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Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
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- Slate
There are very few slate monuments in Mount Hope. Slate monuments tend to flake and split destroying their carved inscriptions. The Victorians noted this and changed to the more durable granite.
Fletcher Steele, a local monument designer selected slate for four monuments. The classic stones mark the graves of Steele and the other members of his family. He chose a black slate of exceptionally high quality and created four monuments that are typical of the slate headstones found in new England graveyards.
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