 | The cemetery for the Colorado Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (now Colorado State Veterans Center) is the oldest of its kind in Colorado, established in December of 1891. Freeman Morris, a Civil War veteran who served with the Colorado Volunteers and fought at Glorieta Pass was the first veteran interred at the cemetery in that year. In 1912, the Denver Marble and Granite Company dedicated a memorial to honor veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American wars. Since then, veterans from the Civil War through the Iraq War have been buried here. Few empty sites remain out of the 5,000 originally laid out. |