National and State Register

Riverside Cemetery

Denver County

Beginning in 1876, Riverside Cemetery served as Denver’s primary resting place for the prominent and influential, the unknown and unwanted, and all those in between. 

Riverside Cemetery - 5AM.125/5DV.11277, 2007 photo

Riverside Cemetery - 5AM.125/5DV.11277, 2007 photograph.

The cemetery grew out of the 19th century movement toward the creation of landscaped rural-type cemeteries.

This site continues into Adams county.