Cheesman Park

This is Nic's favorite park, and the closest to his apartment. It's super busy during nice weather. It reminds me of a beach. It has a couple nice running paths, paved and dirt. It has fields everywhere, a great playground for the kids. It's a really great park. It's also haunted. It used to be a gravesite and supposedly there are still people buried there. The land began as a cemetery, which was supposed to be for the wealthy, but ended up being filled with mostly poor people, criminals, and those who died of disease. The land passed many hands. It was first land of the Arapaho Indians, but then became federal land through a treaty. Denver finally purchased the land and most people who had loved ones in the cemetery were asked to move their bodies, which they did. But for the poorer people, who had no families to move them, this is what happened 

"When the majority of bodies remained unclaimed, the City of Denver awarded a contract to undertaker E.P. McGovern to remove the remains in 1893. McGovern was to provide a "fresh” box for each body and transfer it to the Riverside Cemetery at a cost of $1.90 each. The gruesome work began on March 14, 1893, before an audience of curiosity-seekers and reporters. For the first few days, the transfer was orderly. However, the unscrupulous McGovern soon found a way to make an even larger profit on the contract. Rather than utilizing full-size coffins for adults, he used child-sized caskets that were just one foot by 3 ½ feet long. Hacking the bodies up, McGovern sometimes used as many as three caskets for just one body. In their haste, body parts and bones were literally strewn everywhere and in the disorganized mess, "souvenir” hunters began to loot the open graves and coffins."

That's Cainen down on the left corner throwin' a frisbee.