Other:

Sign: yes

Street: Richard Lieber State Park

City: Cataract

Township: Jackson

County: Owen

State: Indiana

Nation: U.S.A.

Zip:

lat_ns: N

lat_h: 392

lat_mmss: 845

long_ew: W

long_h: 086

long_mmss: 5228

Status: Abandoned

Size: Small

Directions: From Indianapolis, take 70W to the Cloverdale Exit #56. Turn left on 231 and continue to St. Road 42. Go approximately 8 miles and turn onto St. Road 235 follow this to the entrance of Richard Lieber State Park. After the entrance, follow road to parking for campground area, walk about half a mile on a gravel path to the cemetery.

Type: Road-public

Location: Rural

Terrain: Level

Watersource: Yes

Features: trees, basic vegetation, weeds

Property: Public

Access: Open

Enclosure: Fence

Gate: None

Established: 1850

Gravestones: 26

Oldest: June 21, 1857

Newest: March 27, 1908

Removed: No

Relocated: No

Repairs: Yes

Methods: other

Restoration: No

Association: No

Records: Yes

Inventory: Yes

Availability: Major Abraham Owen Chapter DAR

Landscaping: No

Paths: No

Trees: Yes

Crypts: No

Fencing: No

Brickwork: No

Ironwork: No

Sculpture: No

Fountains: No

Roads: No

Buildings: No

Cement: Yes

Granite: Yes

Marble: Yes

Native: Yes

Slate: Yes

Others: Yes

Wood: No

Materials: No

Architectural: No

Angels: No

Draperies: No

Fraternal: No

Hands: No

Lambs: No

Monograms: No

Plants: No

Photos: No

Religious: No

Scrollwork: No

Urns: No

Carvings: No

Condition: Cemetery vandalized

Unmarked: Yes

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: Yes

Buried: Yes

Weather: No

Pollution: No

Vandalized: Yes

Report: No

VA: Gravestones-Overturned

VA: Gravestones-Broken

Overgrowth: None

Overgrowth: None

GroundCover: Yes

Moss:

Vines:

Drainage: Good

Owner: Regional Government

Use: Recreational

Bordering: Recreational

Change: Smaller

Reason: Agriculture

Visited: Occassionally

Archeology: No

Habitat: No

Contacted: Nobody

Surnames:

Bowman, Herbert, Jenkins

Other_Information:

This cemetery is located in a park area and is supposed to be protected, but vandalism is a great problem and no efforts by the park have been taken to prevent it. There are 26 graves in this cemetery, of this only 7 are not broken and of those 26 graves only 16 are legible.

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Richard Lieber State Park Cataract, IN