Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota)

Mount Hope Cemetery Mausoleum
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mausoleum at Mount Hope Cemetery, April 2017
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Nearest city	Watertown, South Dakota
Coordinates	44°54′59″N 97°5′56″W
Built	1911 (1911)
Architect	South Dakota Mausoleum Corp.
NRHP reference No.	86001500[1]
Added to NRHP	13 August 1986

Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery located at 11th Street East and 14th Avenue North, Watertown, South Dakota. Influenced by the 19th century rural cemetery movement, the 40-acres of land that would become the cemetery was purchased by the city from the Winona and St. Peter Railroad for $120. The earliest recorded burial was in 1881.^[2] As of April 2017, there have been about 12,300 interments at Mount Hope.

Mausoleum

The central mausoleum at Mount Hope Cemetery was built in 1911 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The mausoleum has 100 crypts. It is considered full, and casket burials are no longer performed. Around 2011, a receiving room was converted into a columbarium, with cinerary urns displayed behind glass for public viewing.

Notable interments

• John Banvard (1815–1891), painter^[3]
• Jake Krull (1938–2016), U.S. General and South Dakota state senator^[4]
• Henry Pease (1835–1907), U.S. Senator from Mississippi and South Dakota state senator

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Office of the sexton, Tom Weeks.
3. "The most famous man nobody knows is buried in Watertown". Watertown Public Opinion. May 3, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
4. "In memory of Jacob J. "Jake" Krull". Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel. Retrieved December 1, 2016.

External links

• Mount Hope Cemetery at Find a Grave