Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins
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Grandview Cemetery is a cemetery in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado
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The land for the cemetery was purchased in 1887; at the time it was west of the city limits of Fort Collins. Mountain Home Cemetery had been used prior to this but it was closer to town and with the population of Fort Collins rapidly expanding it was deemed necessary to find another location farther from town. The remains buried at Mountain Home were gradually transferred to Grandview beginning in late 1887 or early 1888 and by the 1920s the site of the former cemetery at Mountain Home had been converted to a playground.
The first interment at Grandview took place on November 21, 1887, when a three month old infant named Felix Scoville was buried there.
As of 2009 Grandview consisted of approximately 45 acres (182,108.7 m²) development, 34,000 grave spaces, 70 crypts, 336 niches, and over 22,000 burials.
(Note: For the Interment Index, click I Agree, then click on the Search by pull down box (defaults to Address), change to Cemetery Plot (Last Name) to search for interments by last name. If the Cemetery ID begins with a 'G' the burial was at Grandview, if it begins with an 'R' the burial was at Roselawn Cemetery, also in Fort Collins.)
Larimer County, Colorado
Larimer County is the seventh most populous and the ninth most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county is located at the northern end of the Front Range, at the edge of the Colorado Eastern Plains along the border with Wyoming...
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The land for the cemetery was purchased in 1887; at the time it was west of the city limits of Fort Collins. Mountain Home Cemetery had been used prior to this but it was closer to town and with the population of Fort Collins rapidly expanding it was deemed necessary to find another location farther from town. The remains buried at Mountain Home were gradually transferred to Grandview beginning in late 1887 or early 1888 and by the 1920s the site of the former cemetery at Mountain Home had been converted to a playground.
The first interment at Grandview took place on November 21, 1887, when a three month old infant named Felix Scoville was buried there.
As of 2009 Grandview consisted of approximately 45 acres (182,108.7 m²) development, 34,000 grave spaces, 70 crypts, 336 niches, and over 22,000 burials.
Notable burials
- Fred Nelson Cummings
- William Silas Hill
- Henderson C. HowardHenderson C. HowardHenderson C. Howard was a Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862.-Biography:...
- Mark D. MillerMark D. MillerMark D. Miller was an American photographer.Mark was born in Scranton, Kansas, the son of Amos B. Miller and Mary Martindale Miller. In 1905 his family moved to the Fort Collins, Colorado area, possibly to alleviate his mother’s asthmatic condition.In 1911 Miller apprenticed himself as a...
- Charles Bateman Timberlake
External links
- Grandview Cemetery at Find A Grave
- History of Fort Collins Cemeteries at Fort Collins City website
- Interment Index of Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries
(Note: For the Interment Index, click I Agree, then click on the Search by pull down box (defaults to Address), change to Cemetery Plot (Last Name) to search for interments by last name. If the Cemetery ID begins with a 'G' the burial was at Grandview, if it begins with an 'R' the burial was at Roselawn Cemetery, also in Fort Collins.)