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1940 Aerial View of Pioneer Park Cemetery

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Photo by City Photographer, 1940

Pioneer Park Cemetery, also known as Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park, in Mission Hills. It was a Catholic cemetery from the 1870s through the 20th century, but became a neglected eyesore, and the city decided to turn it into a public park. Most of the memorial markers were taken away in the 1970s and were later buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. A few tombstones were left as a memorial, and all of the buried bodies remained. In 1983 the tombstones were returned. Some stand in a corner of the park, and a plaque commemorates those buried there.

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