Muscotah Cemetery

Goal: $8,000.00

Specific Need

The Muscotah Cemetery was founded in 1856.  The purpose of this fund is to develop new digital mapping for all gravestones and available plots of the cemetery.  There will be gazebo type structure placed in the cemetery, which will house an internet enabled kiosk providing information about the location of gravesites. This fund will also assist in general maintenance of gravestones, flags and property. 

Profile

Muscotah, Kansas, located about 26 miles west of Atchison in the extreme western part of Atchison County, was first situated about 2 ½ miles northeast of the present-day town. It was surveyed by Dr. William P. Badger and Major C. B. Keith, who had settled there in the spring of 1856. The survey was completed in the fall of that year, and in 1858, Keith opened the first store. Dr. Badger soon became the local Indian Agent, a position he held from 1858 to 1862. The town name is of  Kickapoo Indian origin and means “beautiful prairie” or “prairie on fire.”