Cheesman Park (Denver, Colorado)

 park, cemetery, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic district

Cheesman Park and the land that is now the Botanic Gardens was given to the city for use as a cemetery in 1872 by a congressional grant. In 1893, Congress awarded a grant to permit its use as a park. The early burial ground in Cheesman, called Congress Park until the 1930s, was then removed. It was not until 1938, however, that the city finished removing tombstones from the Botanic Gardens and the arboretum development began. During the Speer administration, the Cheesman Park Esplanade was acquired and the Seventh Avenue parkway was developed.

The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (where it is classified a historic district) and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.

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