Craig Street Burying Ground in Covington, Kentucky

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Covington, Kentucky 41011 United States

Coordinates: 39.08409, -84.51513
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The Craig Street Burying Ground is described on pages 1 and 21 of the book "Linden Grove Cemetery Covington, Kentucky: Volume I – Interments", George C. Deyer, ©January 1998. The burying ground appears on the west side of Craig Street just north of its intersection with Sixth Street on the Map of the City of Covington from Actual Survey by Rickey, Kennedy & Clark, 1851, published by order of the City Council by R. H. Rickey & C. M. Clark.

The book records that one account states the cemetery was established in 1815 with the first legal reference to it in 1823. Another account says that it closed between 1835 and 1840. Yet another account states that 1700 bodies were moved in 1872 and that the cemetery was eliminated in 1877. An 1877 city atlas shows the burying ground as approximately 180 feet by 289 feet.