Palmer Divide Research

Franktown Cemetery

CemeteriesLiving todayDouglas County

What we know

'Northeast corner of intersection of Colo. 83 & Colo. 86, at Franktown (Sec. 35, T7S, R66W)'; land deeded by James Kelly on his wife's death in June 1870; still in use (Douglas County cemetery listing, Stone House binder LHS_10 p. 124).

Where it was

USGS GNIS Cemetery 2120673

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Franktown Cemetery?

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