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Battle River Cemetery

Hermosa, Custer County, South Dakota, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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Junction of US 36 and SD 79
Hermosa, South Dakota 57744 United States

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This cemetery is on private property and was abandoned in approximately 1895. It is illegal to trespass. A comprehensive book about the founding and abandonment of this cemetery and people known to be buried there and probably buried there can be purchased from the Hermosa Arts & History Association, Box 175, Hermosa, SD, 57744. It is by Lilah Morton Pengra, "A Hermosa Mystery: Battle River Cemetery, 1880-1895." All proceeds of sales are donated to Hermosa Arts & History Association. When Highland Park cemetery opened in 1886, this cemetery became nicknamed "the lower cemetery." Eventually it became known as "the abandoned cemetery at Hermosa." Research presented in the book disclosed that it originally was called Battle River Cemetery after the Battle River Stage Station where it was located.

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