Old Joliet Prison Cemetery
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Old Joliet Prison Cemetery

Also known as Monkey Hill Cemetery

Joliet, Will County, Illinois, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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*Please note that this is NOT the Stateville prison cemetery. It is completely separate and has its own listing*

Known by many names over the years:
Joliet Correctional Center, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, and the Collins Street Prison.

This facility was also used to house prisoners of war during the Civil War.

Old Joliet Prison was in operation from 1858-2002. The burial grounds had been called Monkey Hill but I do not know the exact time frame that it had been used for inmate burials. Consisting of wooden markers, the cemetery is now unrecognizable and this listing will need continual updating and research as we uncover more information on those buried there.

This listing was started from newspaper accounts and a photograph of the cemetery taken in the early 1890s. It has been said that the estimated burials were around 500 but the back of the photograph says "over a thousand lost souls"... time will only tell.

All information on the inmates buried at Monkey Hill is welcomed and encouraged.










*Please note that this is NOT the Stateville prison cemetery. It is completely separate and has its own listing*

Known by many names over the years:
Joliet Correctional Center, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, and the Collins Street Prison.

This facility was also used to house prisoners of war during the Civil War.

Old Joliet Prison was in operation from 1858-2002. The burial grounds had been called Monkey Hill but I do not know the exact time frame that it had been used for inmate burials. Consisting of wooden markers, the cemetery is now unrecognizable and this listing will need continual updating and research as we uncover more information on those buried there.

This listing was started from newspaper accounts and a photograph of the cemetery taken in the early 1890s. It has been said that the estimated burials were around 500 but the back of the photograph says "over a thousand lost souls"... time will only tell.

All information on the inmates buried at Monkey Hill is welcomed and encouraged.










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