National Register of Historic Places

Spring Creek Friends Cemetery

Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
Listed
March 29, 1996
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
96000351

About this property

The Spring Creek Friends Cemetery is a historic site located northeast of Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. The approximately one-half acre plot of land contains an unknown number of burials with about 123 having plain markers that date from the 1860s through the 1890s. There is a network of pedestrian paths in the cemetery, and it is surrounded by a fence with concrete posts on the south, west, and north sides. The cemetery was founded about 1848 and continued to accept burials until about 1892. It calls attention to the earliest period of Quaker settlement in Iowa, which at that time was primarily a rural phenomenon. The Spring Creek Meeting was established here in the 1840s or the 1850s, and was the site of the first Iowa Yearly Meeting in 1863. The Spring Creek Meeting merged with the Center Grove Meeting in 1894 and formed the Oskaloosa Monthly Meeting. The meetinghouse subsequently moved into Oskaloosa, and burials here dropped off. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Location

Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
41.31150, -92.60273

Categories

EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENTRELIGIONLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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When was Spring Creek Friends Cemetery listed on the National Register?

Spring Creek Friends Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1996.

What type of historic resource is Spring Creek Friends Cemetery?

Spring Creek Friends Cemetery is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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