Crown Hill Speaker Series

The Crown Hill Speaker Series returns for the 2024-25 season. We will cover fascinating topics ranging from the city’s architecture and its tie to Crown Hill, to preparing for celebrity funerals, coffin hardware history, and how to establish your own rain garden. We will even host our first-ever intimate concert and storytelling inside the Gothic Chapel. You won’t want to miss these unique opportunities!

Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana

What connection does Crown Hill Cemetery have with the morning of April 27, 1865, and the explosion of the steamboat Sultana? Of the 2,000 Union soldiers released from the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, GA, and Cahaba, AL on board that day, two are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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What connection does Crown Hill Cemetery have with the morning of April 27, 1865, and the explosion of the steamboat Sultana? Of the 2,000 Union soldiers released from the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, GA, and Cahaba, AL on board that day, two are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Come hear author Gene Eric Salecker tell the amazing story of the steamboat Sultana. This story includes greed and corruption in the overcrowding of a boat legally registered to carry only 376 people, and outright courage and survival among the many men, women, and children that were aboard the Sultana.

Tickets:
- $10 per person
- Must be purchased in advance online
- NO tickets will be sold at the gate
Location: Waiting Station (enter the 34th Street Gate, 3402 Boulevard Place)

All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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Tuesday, June 10