“Gone and Mostly Forgotten”

By Bob Easterly, P.M.

The first burial ground in Gunnison, Colorado, where the earliest pioneers are interred, drifted into oblivion about 1884. Gunnison native Bob Easterly got interested in the subject when he learned that the cemetery was on a ranch that his grandfather and father owned back in the 1930s. Sometimes called Boulevard Cemetery, it was accidentally uncovered in 1994 during a uranium mitigation project. After remediation in 1995, Boulevard once again slipped into oblivion.

Bob Easterly is a fourth-generation Coloradoan, who grew up as a rancher’s kid. He is retired from a career with two of Colorado’s pioneer financial institutions, a 30-year tour in the U.S. Naval Reserve and most recently worked in disaster recovery. He is a Past President of the Mount Evans Chapter – Sons of the American Revolution, Past Sheriff of the Denver Posse, and a member of numerous historical and genealogical societies in Colorado and Pennsylvania. He is a volunteer at the Archives and Local History Center of the Douglas County Library in Castle Rock. 

---

For more information on how to RSVP, click here.