Presidio San Agustin del Tucson Cemetery
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
The Presidio San Agustin del Tucson cemetery is a defunct cemetery established about 1776 at the location of a Spanish military fortress. It was in use until the mid-to-late 1850s. Afterwards, residents of Tucson were buried in the nearby National Cemetery.
The cemetery was located on both sides and burials were also placed beneath the San Agustin Chapel. A description from 1820 indicates that the cemetery was surrounded by a wall, had a gate with a key, and that there was an iron cross present.
Alameda Street was run over the top of the cemetery in the late 1850s.
In the 1880s and 1920s, burials were located during road grading. Other burials were excavated by archaeologists in 1969, 1970, and in 1991. Some of these burials were later reburied on the Tohono O'odham Nation or at Holy Hope Cemetery. Many other burials lie today beneath the street, and the area to the south, extending beneath the north wing of the 1929 Pima County Courthouse.
The Presidio San Agustin del Tucson cemetery is a defunct cemetery established about 1776 at the location of a Spanish military fortress. It was in use until the mid-to-late 1850s. Afterwards, residents of Tucson were buried in the nearby National Cemetery.
The cemetery was located on both sides and burials were also placed beneath the San Agustin Chapel. A description from 1820 indicates that the cemetery was surrounded by a wall, had a gate with a key, and that there was an iron cross present.
Alameda Street was run over the top of the cemetery in the late 1850s.
In the 1880s and 1920s, burials were located during road grading. Other burials were excavated by archaeologists in 1969, 1970, and in 1991. Some of these burials were later reburied on the Tohono O'odham Nation or at Holy Hope Cemetery. Many other burials lie today beneath the street, and the area to the south, extending beneath the north wing of the 1929 Pima County Courthouse.
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Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
- Total memorials113
- Percent photographed99%
- Percent with GPS9%
- Added: 5 Jul 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2408910
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