Since its been nice out the last few days with Fall approaching I’ve decided to go grave hunting downtown at Elmwood Cemetery… I haven’t been there in several years so it will be nice to be reunited with a cemetery I’ve done so much hunting in.

This cemetery is one of my favorites of all the cemeteries I’ve been too. Complete with rolling hills, a creek which happened to of witnessed a military battle back in the 1800’s, mausoleums built right into the hillside, entombed there are many people who had something or the other to do with Detroit and Michigan history.

Other people buried there include several brewery owners, a distillery owner who was a financial patron of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan back in the 1920s, a big time drug dealer who was murdered in his hospital bed while recuperating from unknown causes, a Wayne State Professor who was murdered because he was involved with a pimp and prostitute, and was also the subject matter in the true crime thriller “Masquerade”, many politicians, people related to royalty, among others…

The peace and tranquility I get by visiting this cemetery is bar none… I love this cemetery some areas of the cemetery you can get a perfect view of the nearby Detroit skyline.