Buffalo Springs Cemetery
Park County, Colorado, USA
Green/Buffalo Springs Cemetery is located west of Antero Reservoir fifteen miles south of Fairplay along U.S. Highway 285. The cemetery appears to represent a burial ground holding one or two family graves that evolved into a community resource. In earlier years it was called Green Burying Ground, Green Cemetery, or 63 Cemetery (for the nearby 63 Ranch). Ranchers George H. and Elizabeth Green settled immediately east of the cemetery in 1870, and he received a homestead patent for 160 acres in 1882. Although the site contains a marker for the couple's infant daughter, Ida Belle, with a death date of 1864, it appears unlikely the burial pre-dated their settlement. The first burial appears to be George W. Green, the couple's three-year-old, who died in 1877. The cemetery contains early interments of area ranching families, including the Parmelee, Shoemaker, Sweet, and Rich families. The active community burial ground contains approximately forty-five graves."
Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 16.
Green/Buffalo Springs Cemetery is located west of Antero Reservoir fifteen miles south of Fairplay along U.S. Highway 285. The cemetery appears to represent a burial ground holding one or two family graves that evolved into a community resource. In earlier years it was called Green Burying Ground, Green Cemetery, or 63 Cemetery (for the nearby 63 Ranch). Ranchers George H. and Elizabeth Green settled immediately east of the cemetery in 1870, and he received a homestead patent for 160 acres in 1882. Although the site contains a marker for the couple's infant daughter, Ida Belle, with a death date of 1864, it appears unlikely the burial pre-dated their settlement. The first burial appears to be George W. Green, the couple's three-year-old, who died in 1877. The cemetery contains early interments of area ranching families, including the Parmelee, Shoemaker, Sweet, and Rich families. The active community burial ground contains approximately forty-five graves."
Park County, Colorado, Historic Cemeteries, "Historic Cemetery Development in Park County, Colorado, 1859-1965", United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado, Section number E, page 16.
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