Cairo, Illinois in the Gilded Age; Where the Wealthy are Buried; Beech Grove Cemetery

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Cairo, Illinois, sits at the very tip of southernmost Illinois at the Confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the last half of the nineteenth century, the town boasted five railroads, nine steamboat lines, three hospitals, five newspapers, and even a board of trade. But the dead could not rest there. They had to be buried in the nearby Mounds and Villa Ridge. Beech Grove Cemetery dates from 1855. The Cairo City Cemetery was established in 1864. Calvary Catholic Cemetery dates from 1855.
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