Showmen's Rest
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showmen-s-rest-201-2312016
title:
Showmen's Rest
text:
Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Hessville, Indiana,, when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train from Detroit, Michigan, to Chicago
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Circus people's graveyard
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showmen%27s_Rest
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date modified:
2024-04-26T19:25:14Z
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13
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