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 now are 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 also now are buried at Cedar Grove.

Meet us at the Plant family burial plot near the middle of the cemetery (close to our stone and metal-clad maintenance buildings - where there is parking) for this tour focused on a fascinating period of American history.