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This list of cemeteries in Iowa includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
St. Boniface Catholic Church (Westphalia, Iowa) St. John's Lutheran Church (Hampton, Iowa) St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Bauer, Iowa) St. Michael's Catholic Church (Holbrook, Iowa) Sharon Cemetery Historic District; Slinde Mounds State Preserve; South Jordan Cemetery; Spring Creek Friends Cemetery
Oakland Cemetery was deeded to the residents of Iowa City on February 13, 1843. Over the years the cemetery has expanded to 40 acres (160,000 m 2). Supported by taxpayers, the cemetery is a non-perpetual care facility.
Another 3 properties were once listed but have been removed. Of the sites on the National Register in Columbus, 54 are also on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties, the city's list of local landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 21, 2025. [3]
Woodlawn Cemetery Gates and Shelter is a historic building and structure located in Washington, Iowa, United States. They were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1] Originally named City Cemetery, Woodlawn was established southwest of the city limits in 1840. Jonathan H. Wilson donated the land.
The cemetery board hired Captain George F. de la Roche, who had finished the design of Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. five years earlier, to complete the design and platting of the cemetery. [4] [5] It was designed as a rural or garden cemetery, but it transitioned to a landscape-lawn cemetery beginning in the late 19th century. [6]
Tri-City Jewish Cemetery (Davenport, Iowa) W. Walnut Hill Cemetery (Council Bluffs, Iowa) Woodland Cemetery (Des Moines, Iowa)
The buildings in the district belong to Sharon Presbyterian Church and the cemetery in the churchyard. They include the church itself (1885), the manse (1918), the sexton's house (1899), and the toilet rooms and lavatory (c. 1902). The buildings are all of frame construction. The cemetery itself is the contributing site.