Naptown Argus

(49 photos) Scenes from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. With over 555 acres and 25 miles of paved road, Crown Hill is the final resting-place to over 190,000 citizens. One of the most historically significant sites in Indiana, Crown Hill is the burial site of such famous people as: President Benjamin Harrison, Colonel Eli Lilly, eleven Indiana Governors, one Kentucky Governor, fourteen Indiana Mayors, thirteen Civil War Generals, poet James Whitcomb Riley, author Booth Tarkington, automobile manufacturer Frederick Duesenberg, and the infamous bank robber John Dillinger. On the cemetery grounds you will find a National Cemetery dedicated to those who served our country, there is also a Confederate lot on the cemetery’s south grounds. The Hill in Crown Hill Cemetery is the highest point in Indianapolis; the downtown skyline can be seen clearly from the top.