Huron Cemetery
Historic tribal cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Built 1843. Added to the National Register in 1971, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
The Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, also known as Huron Park Cemetery, is now formally known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. It was established c. 1843, soon after the Wyandot had arrived following removal from Ohio. The tribe settled in the area for years, with many in 1855 accepting allotment of lands in Kansas in severalty. The majority of the Wyandot removed to Oklahoma in 1867, where they maintained tribal institutions and communal property. As a federally recognized tribe, they had legal control over the communal property of Huron Cemetery. For more than 100 years, the property has been controversial between the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation, based in Oklahoma, which wanted to sell it for redevelopment, and the much smaller, unrecognized Wyandot Nation of Kansas, which wanted to preserve the burying ground.
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The record
| Property type | Site |
| Address | On Minnesota Ave., between 6th and 7th Sts., Kansas City, KS |
| County | Wyandotte County |
| Listed | Sep 3, 1971 |
| Reference number | 71000335 |
| Built | 1843 |
| Type of place | cemetery |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places |
| Contributing resources | 1 sites, 40 objects |
Visiting
| Address | On Minnesota Ave., between 6th and 7th Sts., Kansas City, KS |
| Website | kansastravel.org/kansascitykansas/huronindiancemetery.htm ↗ |
| Coordinates | 39.11474, -94.62626 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Harry S Truman National Historic Site · 14 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Longview Campground 18 mi · Camp Branch Campground 21 mi |
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Nearby in Wyandotte County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 71000335. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.