Park City Cemetery
Alma, Park County, Colorado, USA
The Park City Cemetery lies in the Mosquito Creek drainage along County Road 10, about 0.75 miles east of the Park City townsite and the same distance southwest of Alma. The settlement sprang up in 1879, located along an important wagon road accessing mining areas farther up Mosquito Gulch. The first documented burial in the cemetery was that of hotel operator W.H. Hosang
in October 1880. According to a 2013 reconnaissance survey, burials in the small community cemetery 'include local children, miners, and railroad workers.' The 1883 marble tombstone of Leola M. Noel is the only extant marker, but a 2014 forensic canine study identified more than forty possible burial locations. Cemetery historian Linda Wommack asserts 'during the late 1950s, thieves stole all the tombstones in the Park City Cemetery, save one, little Leola's." The burial
ground was donated to Park County in the 2000s."
Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 18.
The Park City Cemetery lies in the Mosquito Creek drainage along County Road 10, about 0.75 miles east of the Park City townsite and the same distance southwest of Alma. The settlement sprang up in 1879, located along an important wagon road accessing mining areas farther up Mosquito Gulch. The first documented burial in the cemetery was that of hotel operator W.H. Hosang
in October 1880. According to a 2013 reconnaissance survey, burials in the small community cemetery 'include local children, miners, and railroad workers.' The 1883 marble tombstone of Leola M. Noel is the only extant marker, but a 2014 forensic canine study identified more than forty possible burial locations. Cemetery historian Linda Wommack asserts 'during the late 1950s, thieves stole all the tombstones in the Park City Cemetery, save one, little Leola's." The burial
ground was donated to Park County in the 2000s."
Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 18.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 57479
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