Mount Elliott Cemetery
Mount Elliott Cemetery is the oldest extant cemetery in the city of Detroit, and contains 65 acres (260,000 m2). It is located on Mount Elliott Avenue just north of Lafayette Street.
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Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or cemetery:
“If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, in Truro.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)