Crown Hill

Crown Hill Cemetery founded in 1863 is the fourth largest cemetery in America. The history of Indiana and the United States is reflected in its monuments. President Benjamin Harrison, vice president's Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Hendricks, and Thomas Marshall innovators Richard Gatling and Col. Eli Lilly author Booth Tarkington and the poet James Whitcomb Riley are among the many political commercial and literary leaders buried within its bounds. Crown Hill is the only Cemetery in the state listed on the National Register of Historic Places.