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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.
Chariton Cemetery is located in Chariton, Iowa, United States.It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1] At the time of its nomination the district consisted of five resources, including one contributing building, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one non-contributing building. [2]
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
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The crematorium was the first in the state of Iowa and thirteenth in the United States. [2] It is the ninth oldest crematorium still in existence in the United States. [4] Initially, the crematorium served not only the city of Davenport, but the needs of the state of Iowa and larger cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Denver. [2]
The cemetery was laid out the same year. The church is a simple rectangular, frame structure that measures 50 by 30 feet (15.2 by 9.1 m). [2] A two-stage bell tower rises over the main entrance. From 1908 until it closed in 1970 Gracehill was the last of Iowa's seven Moravian communities. [2]
Kent Union Chapel and Cemetery is a historic building and cemetery located north of Brooklyn, Iowa, United States. They are named for the Kent family who moved to Poweshiek County from Putnam County, Indiana in 1853. They acquired property near Joseph Enochs who had arrived a year earlier.
The cemetery lies to the south of an old stagecoach route known as the Territorial Road, now U.S. Route 52. It contains about 144 marked burials and 43 that are unmarked. The site is enclosed by a combination of chain-link fence on the north and post-and-wire fence on the other three sides. There is no landscaping within the cemetery proper.