The following are abandoned cemeteries in El Paso County with no marked graves and no known records of those buried there. If any markers or names exist, the cemetery has its own page. Unless otherwise noted, information is from the 1985 Colorado Cemetery Directory.

 

Colorado City No. 1

Cemetery Said to be the first cemetery in the Colorado Springs area, this cemetery was established in 1859. It was located on a ridge between Red Rock Canyon and the old Colorado-Philadelphia reduction works, northwest of the present junction of 31st Street and Highway 24. The site was chosen because it protected burial parties from surprise attack by Indians. It was abandoned because during the winter the ground was too hard to dig.

 

Colorado City No. 2

Cemetery Said to be the second cemetery in the Colorado Springs area, this cemetery was established in 1859. It was located at old Jefferson and Lincoln Streets, currently in the block between 25th and 26th Streets and West Pikes Peak and West Kiowa Avenues in Colorado Springs. It was abandoned in 1869 and all burials reportedly moved to the Old County Cemetery.

 

Old County Cemetery aka DRG Cemetery

Located at what is now Sierra Madre and Vermijo Streets in Colorado Springs, this cemetery was established in 1860. M.D. Ormes's Book of Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs: Denton Printing Co., 1933) says that by the time Colorado Springs was established in 1871, there were between 200 and 300 graves on less than an acre of ground, which was clearly visible from the Denver & Rio Grande railroad depot. Because the new city was being promoted as a health resort and such a scene was startling if not disconcerting to new arrivals, the city closed the cemetery and moved the burials to Evergreen Cemetery.

 

Falcon Cemetery

This cemetery was located southeast of the town of Falcon in Section 7, Township 13 South, Range 64 West. No markers remain of the three or four graves located here.

 

Green Mountain Falls Cemetery

Some people have told PPGS cemetery project volunteers that relatives were buried in the early part of the 1900s in a cemetery at Green Mountain Falls, a community close to the Teller County border in Ute Pass. However, searches in area plat maps and interviews with longtime residents turned up nothing. If anyone has further information about this cemetery, please contact PPGS.

 

Jimmy Camp Coal Mine Cemetery

The exact location of this cemetery with four or five graves is unknown. Jimmy Camp is located east of Colorado Springs, northwest of the junction of Highway 94 and Jimmy Camp Creek; the cemetery is probably in Section 9 or 10 of Township 14 South, Range 65 West. The abandoned coal mines are thought to be south and southeast of Jimmy Camp.

 

Washington Catholic Cemetery