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Dodge Grove Cemetery

Dodge Grove Cemetery

917 N. 22nd Street
Mattoon, IL 61938

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On April 7, 1862, a resolution was adopted by the Mattoon City Council to purchase ground for a city cemetery. In December of that year it was given the name Dodge Grove. It formally opened in the spring of 1863.  Three American Generals of the Civil War are buried at Dodge Grove, along with approximately 260 Civil War soldiers, including one unknown Confederate soldier.



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