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Walnut Hill Cemetery (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Coordinates: 41°16′17″N 95°49′27″W / 41.2712516°N 95.8241189°W / 41.2712516; -95.8241189
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Walnut Hill Cemetery
Image described as a "choice section" of Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1914.
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Established1860 (1860)
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Walnut Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The land for the cemetery was platted in 1860, with thirty acres being dedicated to that purpose, and a major reorganization was carried out in the early 1910s.[1]

Notable people interred there include Charles Edward Swanson (1879–1970), William Henry Mills Pusey (1826–1900), Joseph Rea Reed (1835–1925), and Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831–1916).

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  1. ^ "Remodeling and Modernizing an Old Cemetery", Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening (1914), pp. 68–70.
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