| 词条 | Prospect Hill Cemetery (North Omaha, Nebraska) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|name = Prospect Hill Cemetery |image = Prospect Hill Cemetery.JPG |imagesize = 300px |caption = |established = 1856 |country = {{flag|United States|name=United States of America|size=23px}} |location = Omaha, Nebraska |coordinates = {{Coord|41.278|N|95.960|W|format=dms|type:landmark_region:US-NE|display=inline,title}} |type = Public |owner = Prospect Hill Cemetery Historical Site Development Foundation |size = {{convert|13.84|acre}} |graves= 15,000 |website = {{URL|http://www.prospecthill-omaha.org/|www.prospecthill-omaha.org}}{{Designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Omaha Landmark | designation1_date = June 19, 1979[1] | designation1_number =}} }} The Prospect Hill Cemetery, located at 3202 Parker Street in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is believed to be the oldest pioneer cemetery in Omaha.[1] It is between 31st and 33rd Streets and Parker and Grant Streets. HistoryWhile laying out "Shinn's Addition" northwest of Omaha in 1856, Moses F. Shinn set aside {{convert|10|acre|m2}} for a cemetery on land where Native Americans and Mormons had reportedly been buried earlier.[2] The location was reportedly one mile from the Mormon Trail. That year he sold the land to Byron Reed, an early Omaha real estate broker.[3] Jesse Lowe, the first mayor of Omaha, set aside those {{convert|10|acre|m2}} of land for burial purposes in 1858. The new cemetery included a variety of lands, including the city original cemeteries called Cedar Hills and Omaha City Cemeteries. Parts of those cemeteries are still in Prospect Hill boundaries.[4] The cemetery's first official burial was in June 1858. Alonzo F. Salisbury, Omaha pioneer and member of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature, was the first person buried there. Early Omaha real estate agent Byron Reed ran the cemetery early, and sold it with the establishment of the Prospect Hill Cemetery Association in 1858. The next year, 1859, the cemetery grew to {{convert|20|acre|m2}}. The site of the Cemetery was further made available after the 1870 trial of Baker v. Morton, in which courts ruled against Omaha's land barons and the city's claim club. The land was enlarged again in 1890, when the Prospect Hill Cemetery Association was founded. Soon Prospect Hill was {{convert|35|acre|m2}}. Many of Omaha's early business leaders and politicians are buried in the cemetery.[5] There were approximately 15,000 burials recorded at Prospect Hill, including those of many Omaha pioneers, including influential developers, religious leaders, mayors, judges, and benefactors, for whom Omaha streets, parks and schools were named.[6] The cemetery has many interesting monuments and a special section for soldiers from Fort Omaha, and it also has graves for at least 360 early African American Omahans.[7] In the 1880s the Forest Lawn Cemetery opened seven miles (11 km) from Prospect Hill, and eventually Reed sold Prospect Hill to the Forest Lawn Cemetery Association. Prospect Hill was designated a landmark by the City of Omaha in 1979. There is a chapel constructed of rough brick and accented in stone, and a Tudor-Revival gatehouse located on Parker Street. The cemetery was designated as a local landmark in 1979.[8] Notable intermentsMany of Omaha's pioneer families are buried at Prospect Hill. Some of the family names include Deuel, Gaylord, Hall, Hanscom, Kennard, Krug, Lake, Lowe, McCague, Metz, Redick, and Reed. There are also many other notable people interred at Prospect Hill. There are also monuments to Spanish–American War veterans and the gravesite of at least one Buffalo Soldier, Sergeant Allen McClare.
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References1. ^1 {{cite web |title=Prospect Hill Cemetery |url=http://landmark.cityofomaha.org/prospect-hill-cemetery/ |publisher=Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission |accessdate=October 7, 2015}} 2. ^Douglas County. Andreas' history of Nebraska. Retrieved August 11, 2007. 3. ^Omaha's first century, Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved August 11, 2007. 4. ^(nd) Historic Prospect Hill - Omaha's Pioneer Cemetery {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001120032800/http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/markers/287.html |date=2000-11-20 }}. Nebraska Department of Education. Retrieved July 7, 2007. 5. ^(n.d.) Historic Prospect Hill - Omaha's Pioneer Cemetery Nebraska Historical Society. 6. ^(nd) About Prospect Hill Cemetery {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041226214139/http://www.ops.org/ooe/prospect/aboutPHC.htm |date=2004-12-26 }}. Omaha Public Schools. Retrieved June 25, 2007. 7. ^(1981) Project Prospect: A youth investigation of blacks buried at Prospect Cemetery{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Girls Club of Omaha. 8. ^(n.d.) Prospect Cemetery {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041221012328/http://www.ops.org/ooe/prospect/index.html |date=2004-12-21 }} Omaha Public Schools. Retrieved July 16, 2007. 9. ^{{cite book|last=Thaddeus D. Seeley|title=History of Oakland County Michigan|date=1912|publisher=Thaddeus D. Seeley|page=128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtzsq71gpFAC&pg=PA128&dq=Origen+D.+Richardson+prospect+Hill+Cemetery&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_52HU9vIOZOMqAa604DoBw&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Origen%20D.%20Richardson%20prospect%20Hill%20Cemetery&f=false}} Further reading
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4 : Landmarks in North Omaha, Nebraska|Prospect Hill Cemetery (North Omaha, Nebraska)|Omaha Landmarks|1856 establishments in Nebraska Territory |
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