Rose Hill Cemetery, which covered 11.8 acres in the north side of the city. People became dissatisfied with Rose Hill due to inaccessibility, the lack of natural beauty and the fact that it was not easily improved. Also within a few years, the growing city would encroach into the surrounding area. Between 1841 and 1935, 10,561 burials were made and only a few were moved to other cemeteries when it closed. In the 1950's, city workers buried most of the head stones in the interest of safety. The city planners wanted to make the land into a park but that could not happen until all of the bodies were removed which would involve obtaining permission from all families of those interred. Today, Rose Hill occupies about a city block and is a barren hillside with some tombstones at the top.
 
(source: http://www.shadesofoakwood.com/ )

View my pitcures of Rose Hill Cemetery HERE
(note: some of the photos will appear crooked.  Its the land that is crooked.  Most of the photos were taken either going up or down hill.)

additional links for Rose Hill Cemetery

http://www.nysut.org/

http://www.pacny.net/

Resurrecting Rose Hill
(its the 2nd article)

          other facts

December 1840 - Syracuse purchases the Rose Hill tract at $300 per acre for a new cemetery, abandons the old one on Franklin Street.

24 February 1842 - Keneseth Sholom (the Society of Concord), first Jewish congregation in Syracuse, is incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. Early trustees and officers included Max Thalheimer, Samuel Bernheimer, Joseph Wiseman, Joseph Schloss, Hessel Rosenbach, Samuel Manheimer, and E. Rothschild. Services were held in the Townsend Block on Water Street. The congregation purchases a tract of land on Lodi Street for a cemetery (Rose Hill Cemetery; it is today still in existence but no longer in use).

(source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mstone/timeline.html )