Boot Hill Cemetery-Dodge City, KS
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 45.174 W 100° 01.272
14S E 410040 N 4178890
Boot Hill Cemetery-This hill was not a pleasant place during the 1870’s. It was covered with buffalo grass, prickly pear and soapweed and was used as a burying ground for drifters, troublemakers, and unknowns from 1872 until 1879.
Waymark Code: WM11PPA
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2019
Views: 3
Boot Hill Cemetery-This hill was not a pleasant place during the 1870’s. It was covered with buffalo grass, prickly pear and soapweed and was used as a burying ground for drifters, troublemakers, and unknowns from 1872 until 1879. As early as 1879 newspapers were reporting that some people in Dodge City were dying with their boots on and were being buried where you are now standing. There were no ceremonies for the dead, no markers on the graves and wolves often dug up the bodies soon after burial. By 1879 when the city council ordered that all bodies be removed from this site, about 34 persons had been interred on Boot Hill. In 1916 most of the hill was excavated to make room for a new city swimming pool. You are now at what was the northwest corner of the original graveyard.
Group that erected the marker: Dodge City Rotary Club
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
500 West Wyatt Earp Blvd
Dodge City, KS USA
67801
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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