- City:
- Des Moines, IA
- Site Type:
- Cemeteries, Civic Facilities, Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
“In 1938 and 1939 a Works Progress Administration project made several improvements” to Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, “which included improving curbing and the six miles of winding roads through the hilly property and making a two-acre lake which continues to attract ducks and geese.”
Source notes
https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcapehart/crom_morgan_lemar_stanley_taylor_cemetery_photos_6.html
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 31, 2016.
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Evan Kalish
My great-grandparents were both big Roosevelt supporters. My great-grandfather passed away from cancer in 1938 and was buried in this cemetery; my great-grandmother lived to 100 and was buried next to her husband in 1998. I had no idea there was a New Deal connection to this site.
I think the address and map location you have on this page is a different cemetery. Glendale cemetery is at 48th and University.
Fixed; thanks!