Union Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
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union-cemetery-kansas-city-missouri-171-12031686
title:
Union Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
text:
Union Cemetery is the oldest surviving public cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded on November 9, 1857, as the private shareholder-owned corporation, Union Cemetery Assembly. As a commercial enterprise remote from city limits, its 49 acres (20 ha) became a well-funded and remarkably landscaped destination by 1873. Through the late 1800s and early 1900s, it declined into haphazard burial practices and virtually no maintenance. Some graves were permanently unmarked, unidentifiable, an
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encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Cemetery_(Kansas_City,_Missouri)
date created:
2023-08-04T21:22:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T12:15:10Z
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13
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