A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass. (WHS Image ID 121610)

A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass. (WHS Image ID 121610)

Cemeteries

 

Blooming Grove Cemetery, 710 Pflaum Road

Erste Lutheran Kirche Cemetery, Pleasant View Road at Old Sauk Road

Forest Hill Cemetery, 1 Speedway Road

Lakeview Lutheran Church, 4001 Mandrake at Northport Drive

Lake View TB Sanatorium Cemetery, 1202 Northport Drive

Mendota State Mental Hospital Cemetery, Green Avenue near Knudtson Drive

(looks like a vacant lot between two houses)

Middleton Junction Cemetery, Mineral Point Road at Prairie Towne

Resurrection Cemetery, 2705 Regent Street

Formed In 1953 by Consolidating Calvary (1863) and Holy Cross (circa 1923)

Roselawn Memorial Park, Broadway, Monona

Sunset Memory Gardens, 7302 Mineral Point Road

Sites Where Cemeteries Were Once Located

  • Block 61 - area bounded by Langdon, Carroll, Gilman & Henry Streets, 1839

  • Greenbush Cemetery - Dead Lake Ridge, South Brooks Street by St. Marys Hospital, 1845

    Madison's original Catholic cemetery

  • Sandhill Cemetery - near what is now West Main & Proudfit Streets, 1840

  • University Hill - now Bascom Hill, 1837

  • Village Cemetery - Block 180, now Orton Park, 1846 - 1870s

    Bodies moved to Forest Hill Cemetery