Mt. Hope Cemetery off US 81, Watertown, South Dakota. County/parish: Codington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 13, 1986. NRIS 86001500.
1 contributing building.
Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery located at 11th Street East and 14th Avenue North, Watertown, South Dakota. Influenced by the 19th century rural cemetery movement, the 40-acres of land that would become the cemetery was purchased by the city from the Winona and St. Peter Railroad for $120. The earliest recorded burial was in 1881. As of April 2017, there have been about 12,300 interments at Mount Hope.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93204697