Austin, United States
200 W 51st St
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+1 5124192367
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
I see people on here griping about this \unused space\ and why can't they turn it into a park. Seriously? There are approximately 2,900 graves at the cemetery along with a large portion of unused land in Central Austin. In recent years, unclaimed deceased residents of the Austin State School have been buried at the ASH cemetery. All but 700 of the deceased have been identified and noted in burial records. Just because you don't see headstones doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people buried there. YOU being able to use this as a park is not reason enough to bulldoze the property (as some moron suggested) and turn it into a park. People's relatives are buried there. Have some class and accept the fact that it is a cemetery that has been here far longer than any of you have.
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Don’t dead. Open inside.
I used to live across the street from this cemetery. While it may not be the prettiest cemetery, it offers a resting place for some of Austin's most tortured and lost souls. As such, I'd rather see it improved and made a place for people to contemplate life, perhaps in the style of the Victorians, who made it a habit to picnic in cemeteries.
I think there is no better view into the minds of what people really think about others than when they make comments on how the bodies of the disenfranchised dead- the completely defenseless- should be treated. Wanting to take a cemetery that has perhaps hundreds of bodies and steamroll it and turn it into park so you can walk your little furbaby because there \isn't enough park space\. Let the dead rest. Why not travel the 1,000 feet(which isn't even the furthest you'd have to travel from this cemetary) to walk them? Personally, you disgust me.
I feel a lot of affection for cemeteries. The one my family used to live by was lush, full of life (and death), and a great place to wander around, get lost, or visit a loved one. Most importantly, it was public. Austin State Hospital Cemetery is a vast, treeless moonscape fortified by locked, angry-looking gates. This neighborhood needs some public green space, and I feel this is a waste of space. Let's tear down these gates, add trees and bushes, and most importantly: open this space to the public.
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