Muscotah Cemetery

Goal: $8,000.00

Specific Need

The Muscotah Cemetery was founded in 1856.  The purpose of this fund is to develop and maintain a new digital map of all gravestones and available plots in the cemetery. The data base has been established, and now data input is in process to complete the map. A QR code will be established and added to the sign at the entrance of the cemetery. This will allow vistors to access the website and database to look up grave markers.

This fund also provides care, restoration and long-term maintenance. Funds go to preserve headstones, maintainance grounds and ensure future generations a place to continue to honor those was came before us. 

Mission

Famous in a Small Town- Forever Remembered 

Help us preserve the resting places of those who made this town what it is. 

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.”