National and State Register

Cleora Cemetery

Chaffee County

Cleora Cemetery, established ca. 1880, is associated with the early settlement of the southern Arkansas River Valley in Chaffee County, including the railroad war between the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad that led to the founding of both Cleora and Salida.

Grave site with a headstone in memory of Robert Scott and showing a crossed shovel and pick. The boundary is marked by an ornate wrought iron fence.

Grave site at Cleora Cemetery.

Photo courtesy of the National Register nomination.

It served as the pioneer graveyard in the area before Salida and other local settlements developed such facilities, and it became a final resting place for the pioneers of several communities in the vicinity. It is the only remaining significant historic resource associated with the short-lived town of Cleora. 

Cleora Cemetery National Register nomination, 5CF.343 (PDF)

National Register

Address

East U.S. Highway 50, Salida vicinity

Site Number

5CF.343