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Cemeteries
Over the years some cemeteries have been lost.

57th and Broadway Street
the northwest corner


While the 1916 map shows the cemetery on the corner of Broadway and 56th, this was before the streets were renumbered. 56th became 57th. And 54th became 56th.

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1916
Baist Map
1916

Rural and Kessler
the northwest corner
Dawson and Culbertson cemeteries
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1889
Land Owner names
Hervey Fatout Atlas Marion County Washington Township
1889
2025
historic marker
2025
2025
historic marker
2025
History and grave listings
Dawson Farm Cemetery History by Elizabeth Hague in 1995

Keystone and Kessler
the southeast corner
Bacon cemetery
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2024
MapIndy
2024
2025
Dickerson gravestone
2025
History of Bacon Cemetery

61st and Monon
the northeast corner
Huffman Cemetery or Rink Cemetery
Author Dan Wakefield recalled playing there as a child growing up right across the Monon tracks.
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1901
Baist Map
1901
1904
Baist Map
1904
1941
Baist Map
1941
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1915
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Map
1915