Glenwood Cemetery is a
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
in
Park City, Utah
Park City is a city in Utah, United States. The vast majority is in Summit County, and it extends into Wasatch County. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake Cit ...
. The site was first established in 1885 as a
pioneer cemetery
In the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, a pioneer cemetery is a cemetery that is the burial place for pioneers. American pioneers founded such cemeteries during territorial expansion of the United States, with founding dates spa ...
by silver miners. It is still in use, and has over 950 interments.
"Utah boy, 4, dies after 6-foot-tall tombstone falls on him" ''Fox News''/Associated Press, July 07, 2012
/ref> It is on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
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1885 establishments in Utah Territory
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
Buildings and structures in Park City, Utah
National Register of Historic Places in Summit County, Utah
Cemeteries established in the 1880s