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Anchorage Memorial Park

Cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska

Field	Value
name	Anchorage Memorial Park
image	Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.jpg
established	1915
country	United States
location	Anchorage, Alaska
coordinates
type	Public and private
owner	Municipality of Anchorage
size	22.35 acre
graves	12,500
website	[Home page](http://www.muni.org/Departments/parks/cemetery/Pages/default.aspx)
[Burial list](http://www.muni.org/Departments/parks/cemetery/Pages/MasterBurialList.aspx)
findagraveid	191762
politicalgeo	AK/an-buried.html#cms07389
footnotes

Burial list

The Anchorage Memorial Park, also known as Anchorage Cemetery, is a 22 acre cemetery located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Covering nine city blocks, the cemetery separates the city's downtown and Fairview neighborhoods.

The cemetery was established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 as part of the Anchorage townsite, one of a number of land reserves set aside for public facilities for the new town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, recognizing its status as Anchorage's oldest cemetery.

From approximately 1954 to 1986, a public housing complex called Willow Park occupied the half-blocks of the cemetery site adjacent to Ninth Avenue and Fairbanks Street. The buildings were razed to allow for expansion of the cemetery. All that remains is the complex's maintenance building, taken over for the same purpose by the cemetery.

Notable burials

Leopold David (1878–1924), first Mayor of Anchorage
Anthony Joseph Dimond (1881–1953), U.S. Congressman
Lorene Harrison (1905–2005), Artist and educator
Walter Joseph Hickel (1919–2010), U.S. Cabinet Secretary and Alaska Governor. Buried standing up, facing East towards Washington, D.C.
Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), Explorer
Sydney Laurence (1865–1940), Artist
Howard Wallace Pollock (1920–2011), U.S. Congressman
Mary Louise Rasmuson (1911–2012), Fifth Director of the U.S. Army Women's Army Corps
William Alex Stolt (1900–2001), Anchorage Mayor

References

{{NRISref
"Memorial Cemetery". Municipality of Anchorage.
["NRHP nomination for Anchorage Cemetery"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
"Harrison, Bessie and Sullivan, Daily". Alaska History.
Tetpon, John. (18 July 2018). "Ada Blackjack Johnson, an epic story of Arctic survival, alleged cannibalism, and the will to live".

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