Riverside Cemetery — Local services in Kalamazoo

Filed under taphophile:

One of two cemeteries owned and operated by the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan and by far the larger of the two.

Riverside Cemetery has over 53,000 burials since it opened in the 1830s (graves from the old pioneer cemetery were exhumed and moved to Riverside Cemetery too) The cemetery is a mix of the pleasant "grand old cemetery" with rolling topography and old shade trees and newer flat and boring...

I had been buried here for about 12 years. I had to move due to odor from the river. Rather than going to another cemetery, i decided to join the living once again. I think I'll try and get somebody to clean up the river around this area so the smell is not as foul. Thank you for reading my Post, and maybe I'll...

This is a peaceful and pretty Cemetery the only thing that takes away from it is the awful smell around the cemetery. I don't think it's the cemetery itself, at least that's what everyone tells me, supposedly it's the nearby sewage treatment facility but this area of town really...