Lake View Cemetery, Ithaca

Lake View Cemetery, located behind the Ithaca High School off of Lake Street, at one time, had a commanding view of Cayuga Lake. It is a beautiful serene resting place of close to 8,000 burials, which includes many notables from the Ithaca community. On March 31, 1894, Horace E. Hand of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Herman Bergholtz of Ithaca purchased the 640 acre Renwick tract on the north side of Fall Creek at the edge of Cayuga Lake. The first burial at Lake View Cemetery was Luther Clark Foster, who died in 1895 and was the first Ithaca Superintendent of Schools in Ithaca.