Mount Vernon Cemetery

Death through the camera lens. Take our photo process quiz & win a prize! Plus, a tintype demo by award-winning photographer Vanity Tintype!Photography and overgrown cemeteries go together like peanut butter and jelly! Our Photography and Memory tour focuses on the various ways photography has been used to memorialize the dead and to a degree hault the passage of time. If you're a photographer or photo enthusiast this is the tour for you!!Shutterbugs of all ages and skill sets are welcome to attend this event. We'll be moving at a slower pace than usual so you will see - and

For the FIRST TIME EVER, tour the cemetery at NIGHT and hear stories about its dark history and bright future!! Not for the faint of heart!!Ready yourself for a walk on the (literal) dark side of Mount Vernon Cemetery (MVC). Closed to the public for almost two decades, this fall we open its creaking black gates for ONE NIGHT ONLY to venture on a unique off-road journey through MVC's mysterious past. Racing against the setting sun, this adults-only early-evening tour showcases the more macabre aspects of MVC’s history; tales of murder, suicide, and hoodoo that are guaranteed to send shivers