[1] Frederick W. Higgins, superintendent of Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery, planned the drives and Henry Lee Bancroft, superintendent of the Lansing City Cemetery, developed the landscape.

[1] A section was platted in 1874 for the State Reform School (later the Boys' Vocational School) for the remains of 61 boys who died between 1856 and 1933.

[1][2] The city's Civil War Soldier's Monument, a large obelisk, was dedicated in 1878.

[1] In 2014, a grave marker for the final victim of the 1927 Bath School bombing was dedicated.

[3] As of 2017, there were 23,820 people buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.