From Web Urbanist

This came "across the transom," so to speak. A blurb from Web Urbanist notes that the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., is one of the seven great abandoned sites in the country. Just scroll down a bit from the top and you will find it. You also will find another link to the Forsaken Places Web site.

Maine cemetery struggles to stay open

Here's an interesting situation that has arisen out of the change in public sentiment from burial to cremation. A community in Maine is considering whether to take over the operation of two cemeteries, because their operators get so few burial options (as people choose cremation) that they cannot make ends meet. The townsfolk will decide in March whether to take control of the cemeteries.

New cemetery planned for Shreveport, LA

A developer says it is planning what would be the first new cemetery in that area in two decades!
The organization's rep noted: "We also kind of checked around with baby boomers in the Ellerbe Road area. We found out that not only did most of them not have burial plots, they haven't even thought of it."