Cheesman Park's Past Life...as a Cemetery

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Thanks, Thomas! We'll have to check out that article. Do you happen to know when it was published in Empire?

I have beautiful pics we took on trip to ski in Aspen (from Calif) at the memorial pavillion ...Beautiful place and lots of interesting history. Thank You to Denver CO.and all involved to preserve a piece of distant family history..
Kendal Mark Cheesman

I have beautiful pics we took on trip to ski in Aspen (from Calif) at the memorial pavillion ...Beautiful place and lots of interesting history. Thank You to Denver CO.and all involved to preserve a piece of distant family history..
Kendal Mark Cheesman

Thanks for commenting, Kendal! I'm glad you had the opportunity to visit a site so connected to your family's history.

Turns out, I grew up down the block from the Hebrew section that was turned into a reservoir, then a big grass area. When I was a kid it was B.B Hill, back in the 70s.
I had no idea of the history till I was older.
We did have strange this happen in our house. My sister, and a friend, woke up and saw a woman in her bedroom standing near them, she then disappeared.
I once had a friend over, we were in the basement looking around in my brothers room. I had locked the door at the bottom of the stairs. We heard the door unlock and open, we looked out of my bros room, and saw a huge moth flying across, and then we heard the door slam and lock. We stepped out of my bros room, and there was no one there. The door in the laundry room area had been unlocked, and then locked itself from our side. We opened the door, and saw my cat at the top of the stairs looking freaked out. My cat ran away for a couple days. I didn't go in the basement for a while.
I grew up playing,swimming and roller skating all over those unknown graves. It's sad how those grave sites were treated.

Thanks for sharing your very scary story, Bonnie Jean! I'm officially sleeping with the lights on tonight:)

Congress and White Xenephobic Racists Fake historical facts. Truth is time lines are not exact and Hitler connection to Park.

As well the Corporation that calls it self a government shut the door, Criminals!

A recent RMPBS show about the Botanic Gardens history had a young female filmographer from Colorado Springs making a joke about the fertility of the site. Pretty sick joke. May she share the fate of having some nucklehead come along after she's deceased and desecrate her grave too!.

I’m trying to find an old map that shows just how large the cemetery was and what the streets surrounding it were. Was it confined to the perimeter of Cheesman Park and Botanic Gardens or did it also occupy surrounding streets?

Howdy, Jai! The short answer is that the western half was pretty much the size of Cheesman today, and the Eastern half was the same size but arranged in a different way. This map lists the different areas - if you can locate the general area Cheesman is in now, you'll see its "Old City Cemetery" and surrounding areas.

https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p16079coll39/id/563

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