Riverside Cemetery

Riverside Cemetery, founded 1876, is Denver's oldest extant and operating cemetery and is designated as a National Historic District. More than 67,000 people are buried there, including 1,000 veterans and some of Denver's most notable early citizens: Barney Ford, Augusta Tabor, Elizabeth Piper Ensley, Aunt Clara Brown, Chin Lin Sou, and Silas Soule, who defied the orders to fire on Black Kettle and the Cheyenne and Arapaho who were murdered at Sand Creek.