The tour will be conducted on Sunday October 4, 2015 at 2 p.m. Participants should arrive at the entrance of the cemetery (496 Riverside Street, Waterbury CT, 06786) approximately 15 minutes before the tour. Phil anticipates the tour to last about 90 minutes, wrapping up around 3:30 p.m. Participants must be comfortable with walking for that amount of time and sensible walking shoes are suggested. In the chance of inclement weather the tour will be rescheduled to Sunday October 11, 2015. If there is inclement weather again on the rain date the tour will be cancelled.
Riverside Cemetery has a total area of 36. 4 acres with the most significant monuments erected between 1870 and 1920. A walk along the meandering paths brings one face to face with the burial places of Waterbury’s brass barons, inventors, thinkers, activists, cultural icons and entrepreneurs. Also within the confines of this rural retreat are the bodies of our Puritan ancestors whose remains were transferred from the Ancient Burying Ground (1695), once located at the present site of the Silas Bronson Library on Grand Street, to Riverside in the 1890’s. (http://riversidecemeteryct.org/history.html)For more information, contact: Angel Katiewicz/OLLI at 203-236-9924/angel.katiewicz@uconn.edu