Phil Goodstein writes about the history of Denver cemeteries in the first of a three-part series, in stores now.
The project started out as a one-volume effort on the city’s cemetery lore, according to Goodstein, whose research skills proved too much for one book to hold as the material expanded to more than 1,000 pages. Goodstein looked for a way to break it into two volumes at a strategic point that would more or less create two equal volumes.
Established in 1876, the same year Colorado was granted statehood, Riverside is Denver’s oldest cemetery still in operation. With at least 67,000 people buried there, it’s more populated than many of Colorado’s towns. “Riverside is the showcase of nineteenth-century Denver,” Goodstein says. “It also illustrates the problems and expenses of cemetery maintenance. Far and away, it is the most interesting necropolis in the area in terms of diverse monuments.
Fifteen acres were carved out of Fairmount in 1911 to form Emanuel Cemetery, known as “the Jewish section of Fairmount,” according to Goodstein. It marks the importance of the Jewish community to the growth of Denver as a city, including “everybody from the Gart Brothers to car dealer Justin Rosen to concert promoter Barry Fey” and more.
Formed in 1907 by an association including George W. Olinger and five other Denver entrepreneurs, Crown Hill was “once an ultra-WASP burial spot,” according to Goodstein. In recent years, however, he reports that it’s “become filled with large memorials to people of East Asian heritage. It has stood out as the graveyard for north Denver and those who do not want to be at Mount Olivet.”
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