Frankfort Cemetery

Frankfort Cemetery and Chapel
Entrance to Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort Cemetery is located in Kentucky
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort Cemetery is located in the United States
Frankfort Cemetery
LocationFrankfort, Kentucky
Coordinates38°11′52.2″N 84°52′01.8″W / 38.197833°N 84.867167°W / 38.197833; -84.867167
Built1844
ArchitectCarmichael, Robert; Launitz, Robert E.
Architectural styleRomanesque
Websitewww.frankfortcemetery.org
NRHP reference No.74000872[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 12, 1974

The Frankfort Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located on East Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone, the famed frontiersman, and contains the graves of other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors and a Vice President of the United States.[2]

The cemetery is built on a bluff overlooking the Kentucky River with views of the Kentucky State Capitol, the Kentucky Governor's Mansion, downtown Frankfort, south Frankfort, and the Capitol District.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System – (#74000872)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Morton, Jennie C (1909). "History of the Frankfort Cemetery (From the Streets of the Capital)". Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society. 7 (19): 23–34. JSTOR 23367200 – via JSTOR.