Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota)

Mount Hope Cemetery Mausoleum
Mausoleum at Mount Hope Cemetery, April 2017
Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota) is located in South Dakota
Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota)
Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota) is located in the United States
Mount Hope Cemetery (Watertown, South Dakota)
Nearest cityWatertown, South Dakota
Coordinates44°54′59″N 97°5′56″W / 44.91639°N 97.09889°W / 44.91639; -97.09889
Built1911 (1911)
ArchitectSouth Dakota Mausoleum Corp.
NRHP reference No.86001500[1]
Added to NRHP13 August 1986

Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery located at 11th Street East and 14th Avenue North, Watertown, South Dakota. Influenced by the 19th century rural cemetery movement, the 40-acres of land that would become the cemetery was purchased by the city from the Winona and St. Peter Railroad for $120. The earliest recorded burial was in 1881.[2] As of April 2017, there have been about 12,300 interments at Mount Hope.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Office of the sexton, Tom Weeks.