LOUISVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — Louisville is known for a lot of things, such as sluggers and steamboats, horses and hot browns. It can be a place to live it up, but it's also not a bad place to be when you die.

Cave Hill Cemetery is listed in many travel guides as one of the country's greatest burial grounds. It was chartered in 1848 when there was a need for mass burials in the city. Before that, historians say most people were buried on a farm or other family property.

"There were various issues that kept cropping up, such as typhoid, issues of water contamination, that were leading to a whole range of health issues. And there was really a very compelling need for cemeteries to be developed that were incorporated, that would be governed and overseen," Michael Higgs, manager of Cave Hill He

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