Jason: (Bike Tour) From Grave to Cradle: Sites, Insights and Foresights of Great Rochester Innovators

This tour will travel to Mt. Hope Cemetery, the first municipal rural landscape cemetery in the country. After visiting their current locations in the cemetery, we will visit significant sites around the city of Rochester where some of these innovators made their earlier marks on the world. Included will be Hiram Sibley and Don Alonzo Watson (Western Union, Purchase of Alaska), Henry Augustus Ward (Ward’s Natural Science Establishment), George Baldwin Selden (Automobile), James Goold Cutler (Mail Chute) and Josephus Requa (Machine Gun).

Guide: Ron Richardson

Tour starts at Rochester Contemporary, 137 East Ave. More info: New History Tours