Memorial Day at Historic Hill Grove Cemetery
Photograph description
Scouts gather among the headstones at Hill Grove Cemetery during Memorial Day observances in 1965.
- Date or period
- Memorial Day 1965.
- Place
- Hill Grove Cemetery, South 200th Street at approximately 16th Avenue South, Des Moines/SeaTac area, Washington
- People
- Boy Scouts; individual Scouts are not named in the web caption.
Historical context
The Hill Grove Cemetery Association was formed February 27, 1900. DMHS’s History Quilt says Frederick Kindling donated the one-acre cemetery and that Boy and Girl Scouts and other community groups helped care for it.
Research references
Historical identifications are stated only where supported by the existing DMHS collection or corroborating research. Unresolved dates, names, and locations are identified as such rather than inferred from appearance alone.