Old Settlers Cemetery in Delavan, Wisconsin

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Get directions McDowell Street
Delavan, Wisconsin 53115 United States

Coordinates: 42.63500, -88.64482
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Located on the north side of McDowell Street between Third and Fourth. This two-acre site was utilized as Delavan's first cemetery, 1837 - 1866, although two burials took place in 1869. Originally about 221 burials were conducted in the cemetery. Approximately 104 bodies were exhumed and reinterred in Spring Grove Cemetery between 1866 - 1870. An estimated 117 undisturbed burials remain. Many of the sandstone gravemarkers have deteriorated with age and other vandalized and placed in storage for future repair. Official cemetery burials records were destroyed in a 1893 fire. In 1881, Inscriptions on the remaining 117 headstones were recorded and appear in this display. Interments Include Samuel F. and Henry Phoenix, founders of Delavan in 1836.

As of May 2026, the inscription display around the perimeter of the cemetery was removed and the plaques were moved to two free-standing displays (see new photos). The first part of the alphabet is on the display on the far right side front of the entrance. The rest are on a display at the far back left of the cemetery - which can be easily overlooked.