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Mount Prospect Cemetery

Mount Calvary Cemetery (later Denver Botanic Gardens), the Catholic section of Mount Prospect Cemetery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, is overgrown with weeds; an obelisk-shaped monument has toppled to the ground in the foreground.  Names on the headstones: "Monahan" and "Taney."

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

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