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A
photo of the Rock City Cemetery, circa early 1900s
(Photo
courtesy of Gary Allen, Winterset, Iowa)
Recent
Photos of the Winterset Cemetery
(Click
on photo to enlarge)
No
information on the beginnings of the Winterset Cemetery has been
found. It was put in use at about the time the townsite was
established. For a number of years, it was known as the "Rock
City Cemetery". This name is believed to have originated with
Col. Henry Cummings, editor of the Winterset Madisonian, who, in
the early 1870s, was promoting the Madison County quarries for
stone to build the Iowa State Capitol building whose construction
started in 1871. There were several articles (editorials) in the
Madisonian exhorting the virtues of Madison county stone and
proclaiming Winterset as the "Rock City" of Iowa.
The current day
Winterset Cemetery, located at the south end of 4th Street, has been
expanded several times since inception. There are over 9000 marked
graves and perhaps well over 1000 unmarked graves.
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