In this week's Your Hometown we bring you to the Village of Fayetteville in Onondaga County. With a history beginning in the late 1700s, a women's rights activist, a famous inventor and Civil War general all called it home at some point. While their influence can be seen scattered throughout the village, they are also documented all in one place. Our Karen Lee takes us through the Fayetteville Cemetery.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. --Many locals are aware that a memorial stone for women's rights activist Matilda Gage is at the Fayetteville Cemetery. Several other notables that you may not know about are also represented there.

"The land that Jasper Huntley gave is what we call the Old Ground here in this corner of the cemetery and that was started around 1810," said Fayetteville Cemetery Superintendent Charles Moore. "The Huntley name is replicated and we have a Huntley Avenue which is off Salt Springs."

"This is the Collin Monument. He was one of the original successful businessman in the area that made Fayetteville become a commercially viable area. It was Samuel Wells from the Collin family who had given part of his orchard, known as Wellwood, for the rest of the cemetery," Moore said.

"When the Cemetery Association was first formed in 1844, the first cemetery plot that they listed as sold, they actually donated to the Town of Manlius in order to have the Civil War monument that you see here. And then the four tablets around the stone list all of the men that served in the Civil War," said Moore.

"About 1862, the southern sympathizers decided to attack the arsenal and this was a rag tag group of people called Jackson's Army. Callender crushed the uprising and thus kept the arsenal in the hands of the north," said former library director Ann Moore.

"One of the most interesting but little known people in the cemetery is Francis Carr," said Charles Moore.

"Her family in her obituary said that she was the first woman to be elected to public office in New York State. In 1880, the women had probably their first and only opportunity to vote in school board elections. The interesting thing is Matilda Gage was one of the organizers of this," Ann Moore said.

"This will be a very familiar stone. There is the Matilda Jocelyn Gage House in the process of being restored," said Charles Moore.

"Frank Dawley was a innovator in the field of agriculture, he was the one who developed the use of alfalfa. He developed a breed of sheep and he built this beautiful, huge white barn. And it was the first barn in the United States to be built with a steel frame rather than a wooden frame," Ann Moore said.

"All of the shots that we've shown are good examples of how the cemetery makes a local history repository, all kinds of things that you can learn about the area by visiting the cemetery," said Charles Moore.

If you would like to go on a walking tour, you can pick up a map either at the Fayetteville Library or go online to the library's website, fayettevillefreelibrary.org.

The Fayetteville Cemetery Association is looking for donations. If you'd like to make a contribution mail them to address listed here. 607 South Manlius Street in Fayetteville