Paupers Cemetery is very unique; there are only seven unmarked graves in the cemetery.
According to GPS-derived geolocation (accurate to within 10 meters), the cemetery's coordinates are latitude 38°49'41.5"N and longitude 104°51'34.0"W.
I passed by it several times before I realized that it was right on the corner of 21st Avenue and Old Gold Camp Road. Most of the people at the nearby park and people walking their dogs in that neighborhood were not aware of the cemetery. Even the nearby police department was aware of it (that just tells you how small and unnoticed it is) but its very significant because the people buried there who once had family and friends who loved them very much.
The fenced area contains seven headstones, but no one has any information. A person at the Bear Creek Nature Center says the center does not have the names of the people buried there, but does offer the following information:
Both the rich and poor who died from smallpox are buried there. The remains were moved to this spot from a short distance away during the construction of 21st Street in 1957.
The last case of smallpox in Colorado Springs was in 1942. A Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article at the time of the discovery of the graves (April 24, 1957, Page 1) noted that the graves were originally on the County Poor Farm Property and records of the burials were destroyed when the farm's first hospital burned January 20, 1900.
The article identifies one burial as that of Henry Parks, 46, a resident of the farm from July 7, 1899, until November 10, 1900.
Information about Henry Parks has been submitted here at FindAGrave.com.
My Grandsons and I have volunteered to be the caretakers for this cemetery.
According to GPS-derived geolocation (accurate to within 10 meters), the cemetery's coordinates are latitude 38°49'41.5"N and longitude 104°51'34.0"W.
I passed by it several times before I realized that it was right on the corner of 21st Avenue and Old Gold Camp Road. Most of the people at the nearby park and people walking their dogs in that neighborhood were not aware of the cemetery. Even the nearby police department was aware of it (that just tells you how small and unnoticed it is) but its very significant because the people buried there who once had family and friends who loved them very much.
The fenced area contains seven headstones, but no one has any information. A person at the Bear Creek Nature Center says the center does not have the names of the people buried there, but does offer the following information:
Both the rich and poor who died from smallpox are buried there. The remains were moved to this spot from a short distance away during the construction of 21st Street in 1957.
The last case of smallpox in Colorado Springs was in 1942. A Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article at the time of the discovery of the graves (April 24, 1957, Page 1) noted that the graves were originally on the County Poor Farm Property and records of the burials were destroyed when the farm's first hospital burned January 20, 1900.
The article identifies one burial as that of Henry Parks, 46, a resident of the farm from July 7, 1899, until November 10, 1900.
Information about Henry Parks has been submitted here at FindAGrave.com.
My Grandsons and I have volunteered to be the caretakers for this cemetery.
Paupers Cemetery is very unique; there are only seven unmarked graves in the cemetery.
According to GPS-derived geolocation (accurate to within 10 meters), the cemetery's coordinates are latitude 38°49'41.5"N and longitude 104°51'34.0"W.
I passed by it several times before I realized that it was right on the corner of 21st Avenue and Old Gold Camp Road. Most of the people at the nearby park and people walking their dogs in that neighborhood were not aware of the cemetery. Even the nearby police department was aware of it (that just tells you how small and unnoticed it is) but its very significant because the people buried there who once had family and friends who loved them very much.
The fenced area contains seven headstones, but no one has any information. A person at the Bear Creek Nature Center says the center does not have the names of the people buried there, but does offer the following information:
Both the rich and poor who died from smallpox are buried there. The remains were moved to this spot from a short distance away during the construction of 21st Street in 1957.
The last case of smallpox in Colorado Springs was in 1942. A Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article at the time of the discovery of the graves (April 24, 1957, Page 1) noted that the graves were originally on the County Poor Farm Property and records of the burials were destroyed when the farm's first hospital burned January 20, 1900.
The article identifies one burial as that of Henry Parks, 46, a resident of the farm from July 7, 1899, until November 10, 1900.
Information about Henry Parks has been submitted here at FindAGrave.com.
My Grandsons and I have volunteered to be the caretakers for this cemetery.
According to GPS-derived geolocation (accurate to within 10 meters), the cemetery's coordinates are latitude 38°49'41.5"N and longitude 104°51'34.0"W.
I passed by it several times before I realized that it was right on the corner of 21st Avenue and Old Gold Camp Road. Most of the people at the nearby park and people walking their dogs in that neighborhood were not aware of the cemetery. Even the nearby police department was aware of it (that just tells you how small and unnoticed it is) but its very significant because the people buried there who once had family and friends who loved them very much.
The fenced area contains seven headstones, but no one has any information. A person at the Bear Creek Nature Center says the center does not have the names of the people buried there, but does offer the following information:
Both the rich and poor who died from smallpox are buried there. The remains were moved to this spot from a short distance away during the construction of 21st Street in 1957.
The last case of smallpox in Colorado Springs was in 1942. A Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article at the time of the discovery of the graves (April 24, 1957, Page 1) noted that the graves were originally on the County Poor Farm Property and records of the burials were destroyed when the farm's first hospital burned January 20, 1900.
The article identifies one burial as that of Henry Parks, 46, a resident of the farm from July 7, 1899, until November 10, 1900.
Information about Henry Parks has been submitted here at FindAGrave.com.
My Grandsons and I have volunteered to be the caretakers for this cemetery.
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