Woodland Cemetery Historical Tour

Name: Woodland Cemetery Historical Tour
Start: 2024-10-12T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-12T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Woodland Cemetery (Des Moines, Iowa)

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Woodland Cemetery (Des Moines, Iowa) | Des Moines, IA

Woodland Cemetery is a vast treasury of our heritage and the many pioneers' leaders who are buried there transformed our country. Cemetery historian/researcher/educator Archie Cook shares his wealth of knowledge about Woodland Cemetery during a 2 ½ hour tour which involves about one mile of walking. The stories told by the monuments and headstones combine to form the history of the city as it has passed through civil and world wars, epidemics, and natural disasters as well as the normal course of birth, life, and death. Passing through the narrow drives of the cemetery, you see stone etchings of the names of many citizens from our past who helped build Des Moines. The names are a part of everyday life in our city's landscape, street, parks, schools, and building like Savery, Kenworthy, Ingersoll, Hubbell, Kaplan, Perkins, Teachout, Fleur, Redhead, Polk, and Sherman.