Saving the Medina Cemetery

Bill Meirath with Mariano Medina’s Hawken Rifle

Where are the bodies buried?  That question still haunts the graveyard of Mariano Medina, Loveland, Colorado’s first settler.  The cemetery was torn down in January 1960 to make way for development.  Thanks to Bill Meirath and others in the Loveland Historical Society, the Medina Cemetery has been restored.  But the question lingers:  whose remains are still buried there?  Read Ken Jessen’s third article in his series about the Medina Cemetery.