TEMPLE HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

Provides ongoing grass cutting, raking, and lot cleaning for all purchased graves as part of a permanent maintenance program funded through an endowment included in the purchase price.

Expanded cemetery grounds through historical land donations and purchases from 1807 to the 1920s, including parcels from James S. Wadsworth, Abraham Foreman, and others, resulting in the current fifteen-acre site.

Manages a fifteen-acre historic cemetery at 111 Temple Hill Street in Geneseo, NY, with approximately six thousand interred individuals. Provides daily maintenance including mowing, raking, pruning, cleaning, and landscape preservation through planting and care of trees and shrubs.

Offers burial plots for full burials and cremations, including designated areas such as the Cremation Garden and Personal Niches or Columbarium. Conducts grave opening and closing, disinterment, reinterment, and accommodation services for cremains, with fees varying by service type and timing.

Runs an annual fund drive to support operations and improvements and sells Christmas wreaths placed on designated gravesites each year.

Completes capital and preservation initiatives including digitizing records, restoring historic ironwork, installing infrastructure (waterline, roadway sign), improving roadways, adding a cremation urn garden, and conducting tree management reviews for safety and future planting.

Assists visitors in locating specific grave sites through the Superintendent, offers cemetery maps, and is constructing an entrance kiosk to improve navigability. Also provides GPS-mapped walking tours and regulates seasonal decorations and flower removal.

Offers self-guided and themed historical tours—including Civil War, notable individuals, women, early tradespeople, and the Wadsworth family—and hosts an annual Spirit Walk event to recognize local, national, and global contributors.