Architect Montgomery C. Meigs NRHP Reference # 97000528 Year built 1862 Added to NRHP 4 June 1997 | Architectural style Second Empire Area 9 ha Phone +1 319-524-5193 Burials John F. Thorson | |
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Location 1701 J St.
Keokuk, Iowa MPS Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS Address 1701 J St, Keokuk, IA 52632, USA Similar Church of All Saints, St John's Episcopal Church, Lock and Dam No 19, Frank J Weess House, Gen Samuel R Curtis Ho | ||
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Keokuk National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Keokuk in Lee County, Iowa. It encompasses 22.7 acres (9.2 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 4,638 interments. It is administered by Rock Island National Cemetery.
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History
Keokuk National Cemetery was created in a separate, donated plot of Oakland Cemetery during the American Civil War as a place to inter veterans who died in the five military hospitals in the area. By the end of the Civil War, the cemetery had the interments of over 600 Union soldiers, and 8 Confederate prisoners of war.
In 1908 when Fort Yates, North Dakota was abandoned, the remains in its post cemetery were moved to Keokuk National Cemetery. In 1948, another post cemetery, in Des Moines, Iowa, also had its remains moved to the National Cemetery.
Keokuk National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.