Lexington Cemetery, established in 1848 in Lexington, Kentucky, grew from a 40-acre burial ground into a 170-acre rural cemetery and arboretum shaped partly by memories of the city’s 1833 cholera epidemic and by 19th-century ideals of a cemetery as both civic garden and resting place. Designed by Charles S. Bell and John Lutz, it now holds more than 64,000 interments, including Lexington National Cemetery, set aside in 1861 for Civil War dead. Known for its monuments, trees, flowers, and four Confederate monuments, it also preserves the graves of figures central to Kentucky’s political, military, cultural, and sporting history.