Walnut Hill Cemetery (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

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Walnut Hill Cemetery (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
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Established1860 (1860)
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Walnut Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The land for the cemetery was platted in 1860, with thirty acres being dedicated to that purpose, and a major reorganization was carried out in the early 1910s. [1]

Notable people interred there include Charles Edward Swanson (1879–1970), William Henry Mills Pusey (1826–1900), Joseph Rea Reed (1835–1925), and Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831–1916).

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References

  1. "Remodeling and Modernizing an Old Cemetery", Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening (1914), pp. 68–70.