National Register of Historic Places
Greenwood Cemetery
Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado
The record
- Listed
- September 4, 2013
- Type
- Site
- Address
- 1251 S. 1st St., Canon City
- County
- Fremont
- State
- Colorado
- Contributing resources
- 1 site
- Coordinates
- 38.42930, -105.24755
- Reference number
- 13000661
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The story
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Greenwood Cemetery is an 11-acre cemetery at 1251 S. 1st St. in Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado, listed in the National Register in 2013. The city bought ten acres from William C. Catlin's homestead in 1876 to start the burial ground.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A, C and D, with a cemetery criteria consideration, carrying local significance in exploration and settlement, social history and art. Its period of significance runs from 1876, when the cemetery was established on Catlin's former land, to 1963.
Physical character
The grounds form a rectilinear grid of 23 sections crossed by dirt roads, enclosed by wrought iron fencing and a 2001 entry gate. Markers range from vertical tablets and obelisks to flat stones, cut from granite, marble and sandstone or cast in white bronze, carved with crosses, urns and doves.
Historical context
The Colorado State Penitentiary buried inmates in the cemetery from 1876 to 1971, and cemetery burials generally ended that year, with the oldest known grave holding W.M. Davis, who died in 1865. The Grand Army of the Republic bought an obelisk memorial in 1899 for the Union burial section, and the cemetery holds a Confederate section tied to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.