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2025 Cemetery Tours
Cedar Grove Cemetery, in collaboration with New London Landmarks, are hosting two ticketed tours of Cedar Grove this fall!
Each event costs $25 for non members and $20 for members of New London Landmarks or official Friends of Cedar Grove.
Living Among the Dead: Cedar Grove & the Rural Cemetery Movement
This tour will explore Cedar Grove Cemetery while discussing its origins and development within the context of the Rural Cemetery Movement. Cedar Grove Cemetery was created in the years just before the Civil War when the United States was undergoing rapid societal changes and it was part of a larger movement aiming to transform the role of cemeteries. We’ll explore Cedar Grove’s origins, its founders and early contributors, its impact on New London, and the radical ways life overflowed into the space of the dead.
The Gilded Age Residents of Cedar Grove Cemetery
The Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a time of both great wealth and great poverty and people from all along this socio-economic spectrum called New London home during that time. Join us for this tour that features stories of some of New London's most powerful, politically connected and wealthiest residents, who are now permanent residents of Cedar Grove Cemetery. We'll also talk about Victorian death, burial and funerary customs and some of the not-so-elite and newer immigrants who kept industry humming in this time period and now are buried at Cedar Grove.