Mound City Cemetery Soldiers’ Lot Improvements – Mound City KS

City:
St. Louis, MO

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Cemeteries

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1940

Description

VA.gov: “The Soldiers’ Lot occupies Lots 262 and 263 of Woodland Cemetery, covering less than 0.2 acres.” NPS.gov: “In 1940, laborers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a depression-era work relief program, erected an enclosing stone wall and post-and-chain fence around the perimeter of the soldiers’ lot.”

Source notes

https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/moundcity.asp https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/Kansas/Mound_City_Cemetery_Soldiers_Lot.html

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 12, 2015.

Location Info


W. Elm St. and N. 5th St.
Mound City, KS 66506

Coordinates: 38.145213, -94.812571

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