Joseph Ellicott, the agent for the Holland Land Company, who shaped Western New York in its early years and laid out the cities of Batavia and Buffalo, is buried under a large monument.

Other notable markers commemorate Anti-Masonic activist William Morgan, American Fourierist Albert Brisbane, and his son Arthur, a prominent newspaper editor in the yellow journalism era; Civil War General John H. Martindale and New York Central Railroad president Dean Richmond.

They are complemented by modern chainlink fences on the south and east; a row of Eastern Hemlock shrubs sets off the right-of-way at the northwest corner.

Two gates near the northwest corner lead to a short semicircular drive with a large cast iron urn in the middle of its lawn.

At its east end is the only mausoleum in the cemetery, the final resting place of Dean Richmond, a Batavia native who rose to become president of the New York Central Railroad.

[1] A small set of steps on the west (front) end has a semicircular tympanum supported by four colonettes of smooth granite with carved cushioned capitals.

An inscription recounts his accomplishments in developing the region as the agent for the Holland Land Company in the early decades of the 19th century.

A four-part inscription on all sides praises Morgan for his heroism in attempting to expose the secrets of Freemasonry and explains how the monument was funded with donations from Canada and 26 U.S. states and territories.

The original 88 plots were laid out in a grid, with the feet of the dead intended to face east, toward the rising sun.

Almost a quarter-century after his death his sister Rachel Evans arranged for his body to be reburied in the city he had founded, with a large monument inscribed with an account of his life and work.

[1] Two years later, in 1882, an organization called the National Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies called attention to William Morgan, a Batavia resident who, after a failed bid to join the local Masonic Lodge, began speaking and writing against the order and its alleged hidden influence on society and politics.

A total of 150 short tons (140 t) of granite were brought to Batavia from Westerly, Rhode Island, for the new mausoleum, including 10-inch-thick (250 mm) 6-by-10-foot (1.8 by 3.0 m) floor blocks.

In the early 1950s the Central built a new main line south of the city, routing most rail traffic away from the Morgan monument.

In 1998 one of the neighboring companies, which owns the right-of-way, transferred a stretch near the cemetery's northeast corner to it for future expansion.

[1] Decedents of note buried at Batavia include seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives, some of whom also served in the New York State Legislature, a Civil War general, a railroad executive, and the man who guided the region's early development.