Tours of the Cemetery
Guided Tours
Island Cemetery and Lew Keen are presenting tours every Saturday starting on June 15, 2024. These tours will highlight people buried on our grounds while promoting appreciation of our landscaped arboretum and our outdoor sculptural museum. Please register by donating $15 per adult, $5 for children under 10 years of age.
Fall Tours
Fall is the perfect time to take a guided tour of the Island Cemetery! The cemetery is an outdoor sculpture park and arboretum that oozes with history.
Offered this fall will be the Highlights Tour that includes some of the people who made the city what it is today. The September special tour will feature Gilded Age Graves and the October tour will focus on Richard Morris Hunt.
All tours start at the Warner Street entrance to the site at 10am and end in the Belmont Chapel. Tickets are $15 person for adults and $5 per child under the age of 5 years.
Tour schedule
September 14 -Gilded Age Graves in Island Cemetery ( see description below)*
September 28- Highlights of Island Cemetery
October 5 special event- Spirits of Island Cemetery- 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
October 12- Highlights of Island Cemetery
October 26- Richard Morris Hunt
November 9- Highlights of Island Cemetery
November 23- Highlights of Island Cemetery
Notable Figures Buried at Island Cemetery
Lew and Trudy Keen collaborated with Island Cemetery staff and Tanya Kelley to develop the brochure shown on the left. You can use the brochure to create your own self guided tour described below. Download and print it or pick one up in the administration building to facilitate you in your search for the famous people described in the themed tours. To enlarge and download the map click the image back page.
Self Guided Tours
The themed tours created by Lew and Trudy Keen and listed and linked below include a map showing the location of each stop on the tour followed by information about the person or the monument. The print version ( for some tours only) is not illustrated (it does include the map) so less paper is needed, but the information is the same as the other version.
These tours are offered free of charge.
Please consider making a donation to the Friends of Island Cemetery using this link.
An introduction to Island Cemetery (with images); print version
Architects and Real Estate Tycoon (with images); print version
More than wife of, mother of, daughter of. The Women of Island Cemetery
Selected Men and Women who served in the Military
An Assortment of notable people
We are Family- The extended Kings and Belmonts and the Griswold family