Memorial Day observances at Prospect Hill Cemetery
      May 31, 2010

Prospect Hill Cemetery at 3202 Parket Street is one of Nebraska's oldest cemeteries, opening in about 1858. Many of Omaha's leading founding father's are interred here, including Mayors, Governors, Congressmen, Senators, prominent business men, and early settlers. For over 30 years, the city recognizes the veterans interred at Prospect Hill, representing the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II. This year, firemen interred at Prospect Hill who died in the line of duty were also recognized.

Afterward, a yellow rose is placed on the grave of Anna Wilson, a notorious brothel owner who left much of her million dollar fortune to the City of Omaha, which used the brothel as the Omaha Emergency Hospital and served as a communicable disease treatment center. The Prospect Hill Preservation Society hosts a dixie land style concert to remember Anna Wilson and her partner Dan Allen.

I ran into a number of friends, and spent a few hours taking pictures and enjoying the perfect weather on Memorial Day.

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Memorial Day ceremony

        

        

     

Various gravestones at Prospect Hill
 

        

        

        

     

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