Buckskin Cemetery near Laurette, Colorado
Buckskin Cemetery is what remains of Buckskin Joe, the Park County camp also called Laurette. The town sat in Buckskin Gulch, just northwest of today’s Alma, on the east side[…]
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Month: October 2026
Cemetery Ghost Tours This Halloween: Etiquette and Tips
Old cemeteries are some of the most beautiful and peaceful places to visit in the fall. They are also home to some of America’s best-loved ghost stories. Many cemeteries now[…]
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The Masonic Cemetery near Central City, Colorado
The Masonic Cemetery sits on a knoll above Central City, off the road to Nevadaville, in Gilpin County. Central City began in 1859 after John H. Gregory struck gold in[…]
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Stepp Cemetery, Benton Township, Monroe County, Indiana
Stepp Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Benton Township, Monroe County, Indiana, inside Morgan-Monroe State Forest, near the intersection of Main Forest Road and N Bean Blossom Road[…]
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Old Yorba Linda Cemetery in Orange County, CA
Yorba Cemetery is a one-acre burial ground inside Woodgate Park, on the line between Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills. Bernardo Yorba set it aside in his 1858 will for family[…]
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery (formerly Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery), Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery occupies roughly 60–100 acres (historical figures vary) at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, immediately adjacent to Paramount Studios. It was founded in 1899 as Hollywood Memorial[…]
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El Campo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego
El Campo Santo, “the holy field,” is a small walled cemetery on San Diego Avenue in Old Town. The plot inside the adobe wall is only part of what was[…]
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Old City Cemetery, Sacramento,CA
The grounds were laid out as a Victorian garden cemetery, meant to be walked like a park. Fraternal sections followed: Masons in 1859, Odd Fellows in 1861, a volunteer firemen’s[…]
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Fort Bridger Cemetery, near Evanston, Wyoming
Fort Bridger Cemetery sits on Cemetery Road in Fort Bridger, Uinta County, about 30 miles east of Evanston. It is a small military and settler burial ground beside Fort Bridger[…]
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